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Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement
From: Quark Physics <meuon () highertech net>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:04:07 -0500 (EST)
I need help with a reality/sanity check. Traceroute is a good tool for checking for routing type problems (loops). Does anyone feel it's a good tool
It's probably a poor tool for all kinds of really good technical reasons, but "Matts traceroute" aka MTR is useful to me, often shows overstressed routers or connections... especially when normal traceroute just shows garbage. Example screen: Packets Pings Hostname %Loss Rcv Snt Last Best Avg Worst 1. shredder-48-1.higherbandwidth.net 0% 6 6 0 0 1 2. shredder-131-1.higherbandwidth.net 0% 6 6 1 0 1 3. 500.Serial3-11.GW7.ATL1.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 3 3 5 4. 174.at-1-0-0.XR2.ATL1.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 3 3 4 5. 194.at-1-0-0.TR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 5 4 4 6. 129.at-6-0-0.TR2.NYC9.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 27 27 27 7. 186.ATM6-0.XR2.BOS1.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 40 35 36 8. 152.63.16.117 0% 6 6 42 41 46 9. adel-buf2-gw.customer.ALTER.NET 17% 5 6 106 78 110 10. c4700lwa.buf.adelphia.net 0% 5 6 76 76 113 11. 64.8.0.85 0% 5 5 97 97 130 12. ??? 13. ??? 14. mx1.cdp.adelphia.net 0% 5 5 105 98 119
Current thread:
- Traceroute versus other performance measurement Paul Bradford (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Ping Pan (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement grisha (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Daniel Senie (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Bruce A. Mah (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Quark Physics (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Andrew Brown (Nov 29)
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- RE: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Mark Borchers (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Marshall Eubanks (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement smd (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Daniel Senie (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Joel Jaeggli (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Daniel Senie (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement smd (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement smd (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement David Charlap (Nov 29)
- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement smd (Nov 29)
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- Re: Traceroute versus other performance measurement Ping Pan (Nov 29)