From: Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste.jonglez@ens-lyon.fr>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net, babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org,
Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] [Babel-users] RTT stability inside a GRE tunnel
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:08:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130702110838.GD24656@ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1307020640190.10894@uplift.swm.pp.se>
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:48:14AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>
> >Anybody seen anything similar?
>
> I don't know if this is the cause, but older gear from Extreme
> Networks (their end-of-90ties and beginning of 2000s), will do ICMP
> in slow-path when routing (even packets going through the device) and
> "everything else" in fast-path. This could cause latency spikes and
> PDV approximately similar to what's seen in the picture.
This looks like a plausible explanation, thanks. They may not be the
only router make to exhibit this behaviour.
Is there a reason for this slow-path routing of ICMP? I've seen
routers applying some kind of rate-limiting to ICMP packets, but as
far as I know, it's only limited to ICMP packets originating from the
router.
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2013-07-01 23:58 ` [Bloat] Fwd: " Juliusz Chroboczek
2013-07-02 0:02 ` [Bloat] " Juliusz Chroboczek
2013-07-02 4:48 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-07-02 11:08 ` Baptiste Jonglez [this message]
2013-07-02 11:27 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
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