Re: drop rates, graphs, triangles

David Becker (becker@wakko.cs.washington.edu)
Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:20:15 -0700

Isn't it the case that routers drop the traceroute ICMP packets before any
real traffic? Or can ICMP and TCP drop rates be considered equal?

On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 10:08:33AM -0700, Neal Cardwell wrote:
"
" Wow. On the face of it, this seems to say that for 40% of paths, we can
" reroute the packets to cut the drop rate by at least a factor of four
" (>=16% down to 4%), which should more than double the bandwidth that TCP