On 10/03/06, Mark Smith <random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org
> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:33:44 +0000
"tony sarendal" <
dualcyclone@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/03/06, Gunther Stammwitz <gstammw@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well that's true but Iperf won't show you at which time a loss occured. It
> > will simply print out the results when the test has been finished. I need
> > something well more accurate that can also tell me which hop is causing
> > the
> > problems.
> >
> > Last I checked I got the time from Iperf, even if it was indirectly.
> A tool that shows which hop in the network that has problems forwarding
> certain traffic ? Awesome, I want one of those.
>
traceroute ? :-) (sorry, couldn't resist)
Does traceroute really do that ? Even for ICMP.
Think about it.
Hint: the return packets your traceroute produces,
do they have the same return path for every hop ?
Think Internet, think large providers with many peerings.
/Tony