> Whats the purpose of this? I mean, I understand nothing is broke per say,
> but I get people emailing me "10% packet loss" traceroutes and wanting
> explainations............
Purpose is not to help interlopers to flood networks
with useless data.
When someone probes you with 3 packets, spaced by 1 sec,
he wants to make sure that you are alive.
If it stresses you more, he is apparently an interloper
or just brainless robot sort of http://www.research.digital.com/cgi-bin/trace
8)8)
Alexey Kuznetsov
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