"On the face of it, this seems to say that for 40% of paths,
we can reroute our traceroute packets to cut the drop rate by at
least a factor of four..."
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, David Becker wrote:
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:20:15 -0700
> From: David Becker <becker@wakko.cs.washington.edu>
> To: syn@cs.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: drop rates, graphs, triangles
>
>
> 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
>
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