level3.net in Chicago - high packet loss?!?

Tue Sep 6 15:09:17 UTC 2005

On Sep 6, 2005, at 9:36 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> In message <38D1AE7F-52FA-4BCF-A32F-CF40FA958DC6 at gmail.com>,  
> Network Fortius wr
> ites:
>
>>
>> And how exactly would you interpret the number returned by net_loss
>> (int), in a column called "LOSS", in reference to reachability of a
>> "hop" between two end points:
>>
>>
> The hop not sending out the ICMP message for those packets, either
> because its CPU is overloaded or because of a configuration option to
> rate-limit them.
>
>         --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Thank you. The former seems close to what may have happened, with a  
possible impact beyond ICMP, as once having moved my client over to  
their Broadwing connection, their processing from Yahoo's site seems  
to have come back to where it was a few days ago.

Thanks again,
Stef
Network Fortius, LLC