On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, chip wrote:
On 9/6/05, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
If the hop(s) following the one you see loss for shows no loss, then disregard the loss for that hop, obviously whatever it is, it does not affect transit, which is what you really want to know.
Is that correct?
This is one of the most misunderstood concepts in properly reading output from a traceroute (mtr, visualtraceroute, whatever). Basically you are seeing loss of packets destined directly *TO* that router, not THRU it. Most
no... not destined TO the router, destined THROUGH the router that happen to TTL=0 ON that router. which is also misunderstood by just about everyone :( but anyway... 'not affecting transit' for reasons sited by yourself and min and adam already, yes.