Re: packet loss question

2016-07-12 Thread cpolish
On 2016-07-12 03:25, Sean Donelan wrote: > RFC791 was written during the internet's anti-standard era. > > We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and > running code Hi Sean, Lovely quote and all, but... do you mean that when RFC791 was drafted the IETF didn't iss

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, cpol...@surewest.net wrote: Thanks for identifying the source, I wish more people did this. My nitpick is that RFC791 doesn't label MTU=68 as "standard"; it says (section 3.2, p.25): RFC791 was written during the internet's anti-standard era. We reject: kings, presidents a

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-11 Thread cpolish
On 2016-07-11 11:26, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <25577fe1-6366-4d6d-b82e-a779193cb...@beckman.org>, Mel Beckman > writ > The Internet Standard MTU's are 68 octets for IPv4 (RFC 791) and > 1280 octets for IPv6 (RFC 2460). > > Every size greater than those is subject to negotiation. Now mo

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-11 Thread James Greig
That's the one:) Kind regards James Greig > On 11 Jul 2016, at 01:26, Mel Beckman wrote: > > James, > > You may be thinking of this presentation: > > https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf > > -mel beckman > >> On Jul 10, 2016, at 4:49 PM,

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <25577fe1-6366-4d6d-b82e-a779193cb...@beckman.org>, Mel Beckman writ es: > Philip, > > Quite often slow Web page loading and email transport -- termed an > application-layer problem because basic transport seems unaffected -- is > due to DNS problems, particularly reverse DNS for the IP

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-10 Thread Mel Beckman
James, You may be thinking of this presentation: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf -mel beckman > On Jul 10, 2016, at 4:49 PM, James Greig wrote: > > There was a useful nanog presentation somewhere that explained this really > well in pa

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-10 Thread James Greig
There was a useful nanog presentation somewhere that explained this really well in particular reading traceroutes correctly Kind regards James Greig > On 7 Jul 2016, at 20:17, Phillip Lynn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am writing because I do not understand what is happening. I ran mtr > agai

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-08 Thread jmkeller
On 2016-07-07 11:53 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Ken Chase wrote: ICMP is allowed to be dropped by intervening routers. Someone will quote an RFC at us shortly. Hi Ken, That's not correct. Routers might not generate an ICMP time-exceeded packet for every packet

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-08 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Ken Chase wrote: > And we know the whole internet observes handling > mtu discovery properly > and doesnt just firewall all ICMP because 'hackers'. > > (OP's issue may well be MTU discovery, esp if he's on > broadband. Don't have > enough details. I just solved this

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-08 Thread Mel Beckman
Philip, Quite often slow Web page loading and email transport -- termed an application-layer problem because basic transport seems unaffected -- is due to DNS problems, particularly reverse DNS for the IP addresses originating your Web queries. If you have non-existent or intermittent IN-ADDR e

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-08 Thread Ken Chase
And we know the whole internet observes handling mtu discovery properly and doesnt just firewall all ICMP because 'hackers'. (OP's issue may well be MTU discovery, esp if he's on broadband. Don't have enough details. I just solved this exact problem a couple weeks ago for a client with an UBNT ER

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-08 Thread Phillip Lynn
On 07/07/2016 03:52 PM, Ken Chase wrote: No offence, but i swear that mtr should come with a license to use it. I get more questions from people accusing us of network issues with mtr in hand... You shoudlnt care that there's 80% packet loss in the middle of your route, unless you have actual

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Ken Chase wrote: > ICMP is allowed to be dropped by intervening routers. Someone will quote an > RFC > at us shortly. Hi Ken, That's not correct. Routers might not generate an ICMP time-exceeded packet for every packet whose TTL reaches zero, but that's not the s

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 7/7/16 3:50 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: Ken, I should have made clear I wasn't replying to you. I was replying to Brielle's comment: > Is it bad that the first thing that came to mind is "Oh FFS, another troll"? I'd never say I was always knowledgeable, but after the thread the other day, and

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Mel Beckman
Ken, I should have made clear I wasn't replying to you. I was replying to Brielle's comment: > Is it bad that the first thing that came to mind is "Oh FFS, another troll"? -mel beckman > On Jul 7, 2016, at 2:35 PM, Ken Chase wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 08:32:19PM +, Mel Beckman

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Ken Chase
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 08:32:19PM +, Mel Beckman said: >Yes. It indicates that there was never a time when you did not know everything :) > > -mel beckman The issue isnt knowing everything, it's making accusations of issues while you still dont know how much you dont know. (~D. Rumsfe

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Mel Beckman
Yes. It indicates that there was never a time when you did not know everything :) -mel beckman > On Jul 7, 2016, at 1:28 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: > >> On 7/7/16 1:17 PM, Phillip Lynn wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am writing because I do not understand what is happening. I ran mtr >> against ou

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 7/7/16 1:17 PM, Phillip Lynn wrote: Hi all, I am writing because I do not understand what is happening. I ran mtr against our email server and www.teco.comand below are the results. I am not a network engineer so I am at a loss. I think what I am seeing is maybe a hand off issue, between

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread James R Cutler
> On Jul 7, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Phillip Lynn wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am writing because I do not understand what is happening. I ran mtr > against our email server and www.teco.comand below are the results. I am not > a network engineer so I am at a loss. I think what I am seeing is maybe a

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Ken Chase
No offence, but i swear that mtr should come with a license to use it. I get more questions from people accusing us of network issues with mtr in hand... You shoudlnt care that there's 80% packet loss in the middle of your route, unless you have actual traffic to lag-101.ear3.miami2.level3.net.

Re: packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Job Snijders
Hi Philip, I can't address your immediate concern, but I do have some hints regarding traceroute: 1/ Please review the excellent presentation from RA{T,S}: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1IaRAVGPEE

packet loss question

2016-07-07 Thread Phillip Lynn
Hi all, I am writing because I do not understand what is happening. I ran mtr against our email server and www.teco.comand below are the results. I am not a network engineer so I am at a loss. I think what I am seeing is maybe a hand off issue, between Frontier and Level3Miami2. If I am