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Possible explanations for a large hop in latency
- Subject: Possible explanations for a large hop in latency
- From: james.cutler at consultant.com (James R. Cutler)
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:58:53 -0400
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Deep Packet Inspection engine delay. <G>
On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> Our upstream provider has a connection to AT&T (12.88.71.13) where I
> relatively consistently measure with a RTT of 15 msec, but the next
> hop
> (12.122.112.22) comes in with a RTT of 85 msec. Unless AT&T is
> sending that
> traffic over a cable modem or to Europe and back, I can't see a
> reason why
> there is a consistent ~70 msec jump in RTT. Hops farther along the
> route
> are just a few msec more each hop, so it doesn't appear that
> 12.122.112.22
> has some kind of ICMP rate-limiting.
>
> Is this a real performance issue, or is there some logical
> explanation?
>
> Frank
>
>
James R. Cutler
james.cutler at consultant.com