Help me make sense of these traceroutes please

Fri Dec 27 17:22:58 UTC 2013

Thanks to everyone who responded off list and on.
Sam Moats

On 2013-12-26 11:21, Josephson, Marcus wrote:
> Start at slide 50:
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> This is documented further by the following Nanog presentation.
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> http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf
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> -Marcus
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Hess [mailto:mysidia at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2013 10:28 AM
> To: Martin Hotze
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Help me make sense of these traceroutes please
>
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Martin Hotze <m.hotze at hotze.com> 
> wrote:
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>> > On 2013-12-25 00:16, Sam Moats wrote:
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>> > You are likely seeing the effects of asymmetric routing.
>> . .. or the effect of passing traffic through NSA infrastructure.
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> Ah... NSA.   That's probably it.
> So much for my theory of a Router virtual chassis  straddling  the 
> atlantic.
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>  or the extra kinetic energy carried by the overseas-bound packet
> took longer for the router to absorb and rebound with an ICMP.
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> But in all seriousness --- what is probably happening here, is  the
> result of extra  "hops"  that don't show up in  traceroute.
> MPLS tunnels could well fit the bill.
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> Other things to consider when latency seems sensitive to destination
> IP --- are preceding device in the traceroute might also have 
> multiple
> links to the same device;  with one link congested and some form of
> IP-based load sharing,  that happens to be the toward-overseas link.
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>> SCNR, #m
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> --
> -JH