level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets

Thu Feb 20 16:11:37 UTC 2014

On 2/20/2014 6:08 PM, Nick Cameo wrote:
> According to mtr command we are consistently seeing
> level3_bx4-montrealak.net
> dropping 30-50% of packets. Our ISP is Bell Canada. Any ideas on how to get
> this resolved are greatly appreciated.

It's dropping packets _to_ and/or _from_ it.
Seem it's got the priorities well adjusted and does not drop packets being
_forwarded_ (see hops 6 and 7).

first $search_engine hit for me was
https://library.linode.com/linux-tools/mtr#sph_icmp-rate-limiting

Frank