On Saturday 14 September 2002 02:03 am, Mike Hicks wrote: > This isn't specifically Linux-related, but here goes.. > > I just changed over from using a Linksys router/firewall to a shiny new > (hah) P133 with a few NICs in it, since the Linksys box was hiding some > things and just not flexible enough to do others. > > Anyway, I'm wondering if I should have kept the box, since it was hiding > something pretty ugly: > > [mike at 3po][~]$ traceroute www.csom.umn.edu > traceroute to liveweb.csom.umn.edu (160.94.119.32), 30 hops max, 40 byte > packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms [long traceroute deleted] > Anyway, I was thinking that 30 hops is pretty bad.. About ten more hops > than I usually expect. Looks like if I had gotten one more hop, > traceroute would have quit! Just seemed odd to me, I guess.. Yup; it's ugly. But it's not uncommon. Back when I was documenting Link Analyst at Network Instruments -- it's basically a sort of super-ping combined with a graphic traceroute -- that sort of route was *very* common for even very close-both-geographically-and-net-topologically links. -- But it is impossible not to notice that, in some of the poorest parts of the world, most people, most of the time, appear to be happier than we are. In southern Ethiopia, for example, the poorest half of the poorest nation on earth, the streets and fields crackle with laughter. In homes constructed from packing cases and palm leaves, people engage more freely, smile more often, express more affection than we do behind our double glazing, surrounded by remote controls. -- George Monblot The life expectancy in Nigeria is 46 years. -- James Lileks, responding to George Monblot ------------------------------------------------------------ http://islamthereligionofpeace.blogspot.com