Next message: Lincoln Dale: "RE: barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh, ipsec"
Lincoln Dale wrote:
>>traceroute/tcptraceroute show packet loss and MUCH higher rtt than the
>>corresponding direct pings on the reported hop entries.
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>>Is this some sort of massaging or plain just "faking it"? Or is such
>>things merely net-urban myth?
>
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> the vast majority of routers on the internet respond very differently to
> traffic 'directed at them' as opposed to traffic 'routed through them'.
Thanks for your reply.
I did include icmp echo directly to each hop as a comparison.
