[ale] loosing my mind

[Byron Jeff]

Dustin,

Take another look. It's 89% packet loss. Also it took 856 seconds to
transfer 857 packets, of which only 93 got through.

Even if only 11% packets were lost, with that latency, anything using TCP
would back off enough that the transfer rate would be abysmal.

BAJ

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 09:50:00PM -0400, Dustin Strickland wrote:
>    89% f the messge getting thrgh isn't terribl It's only missing 11 of
>    the dta. Probby noting to wry about.
> 
>    On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Pete Hardie <[1]pete.hardie at gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>    I feel for you.
>    I once had to diagnose a faulty backup (as in spare bandwidth, not
>    data) network myself.  I scolded the customer's network techs, saying
>    that if a *software* guy found your fallback network was losing 30% of
>    its messages, you must be a poor hardware guy....
> 
>    On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Jim Kinney <[2]jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>    2016-04-06 02:10 PM  <Tier 1 support person>  - Changed:  Public notes
>    (emailed to the user), Incident state, Work notes []
>    Public notes (emailed to the user)  The port doesn't exhibit any signs
>    of degradation. If there is anything further we can help you with, just
>    let us know, I will leave this ticket open
>    Incident state: Work in Progress  was: Assigned
>    Work notes  --- 170.140.138.106 ping statistics ---
>    857 packets transmitted, 93 received, 89% packet loss, time 856137ms
>    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.427/1.823/23.028/2.220 ms
> 
> As proof of everything working fine, <Tier 1 support person> attached a record o
> f a ping test showing 89% packet loss.
> 
> I can't bang my head on my desk any more today. I'm going out for alcohol.
> 
> --
> James P. Kinney III
> 
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
> 

-- 
Byron A. Jeff
Associate Professor: Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
Clayton State University
http://faculty.clayton.edu/bjeff