[c-nsp] Dropped packets - traceroute in MPLS

[Bruce Pinsky]

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Annu Roopa wrote:
| Hi Folks,
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| I have a question from a cutomer, for which i am unable to reason out
why. The Q is whenever i do a traceroute i always see ONE packet getting
dropped like
|  "10.131.63.246 40 msec 72 msec * " below.
|
| What is the reason behind this ? Could any of tell me why ? Is there a
problem or is this expected behaviour ? any docs ?
|
| PE1#traceroute vrf red 10.131.63.254
|
|  1 10.131.31.233 [MPLS: Labels 27/32 Exp 0] 52 msec 60 msec 60 msec
|  2 10.131.31.218 [MPLS: Labels 27/32 Exp 0] 48 msec 72 msec 48 msec
|  3 10.131.63.245 [MPLS: Label 32 Exp 0] 48 msec 40 msec 40 msec
|  4 10.131.63.246 40 msec 72 msec *
|

Several possibilities, but most likely the router is throttling its responses.

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bep

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