On 13/05/2008, at 6:46 PM, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
We seem to be getting about 87% packet loss from the following hop.
3. ge-0-3-0-200.cr1.nct.orcon.net.nz 87% 69 520 2 2 4 47
Looking at a single hop in a traceroute is generally not very indicative of the performance of a path. There are many common reasons that an intermediate router might not be sending ICMP messages back to you that often - ie. there's an administrative filter in place so that traceroute style messages do not impact router performance, etc. Generally end to end performance is the metric you should be looking at first, as that's what counts. Then if end to end is poor, consider traceroute as one of several tools to figure out where problems are. So, you probably want to give more info than poor performance on a single hop :-) Incidentally, and perhaps more useful to you, I see poor performance[1] on Asia Netcom from several places I have gear stashed, who Orcon use for at least some of their international transit. -- Nathan Ward [1] High packet loss