ATM Traceroute middle packet loss?

Sat Sep 28 00:54:12 UTC 1996

This sounds a lot like the problem last year in MAE-East before
they upgraded to FDDI.  A bug in *many* hardware implementations
dropped packets if the interpacket arrival time was too small (even
though the inbterpacket spacing was within spec.)  I don't recall 
anyone ever fixing the problem tho'  It even affected several 
sniffers so they would not see the packets, and hence not record 
the drop....

Larry Plato

> 
> 
> > No, it's not a Sun issue, it drops every other packet only if I got over
> > the ATM Backbone.  I can trace to another router, a ATM Switch, A CSU
> > panel, anything and I get the same dropped packet.  
> > I did further testing, and it is every other packet, not just the middle one.
> 
> Looks like Solaris has the same bug as the ATM link you
> described. I see every other packet dropped by a
> Solaris box on my ethernet but not by a linux box
> on the same ethernet.
> 
> Sanjay.
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