Dropping packets??

[Christopher White]

> I just tried pinging back to you and encountered no packet loss..
> 
> I tried pinging www.yahoo.com, www.whitehouse.gov, 
> www.nomaddesign.com,
> thunder.sonic.net, newbolt.sonic.net, etc..  All seem to give 
> me some packet
> loss..  Except for your IP..  0% packet loss.  It seems 
> though, that the
> packet loss is lower now than before now that I've been 
> messing around with
> it..  Weird..
> 
> - Christopher Wagner

You've got a strange duplication at the end of this traceroute:

tophat:~# traceroute 63.113.184.226   
traceroute to 63.113.184.226 (63.113.184.226), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  atg-router (216.210.204.209)  0.779 ms  0.725 ms  0.613 ms
 2  64-42-94-1.atgi.net (64.42.94.1)  17.130 ms  15.618 ms  17.047 ms
 3  gig00.cr1.snrsca16.atgi.net (206.58.248.71)  17.706 ms  17.599 ms
17.234 ms
 4  atm401.cr1.snrfca15.atgi.net (64.42.101.5)  18.146 ms
atm401.cr1.cncrca14.atgi.net (216.210.139.2)  18.468 ms
atm401.cr1.snrfca15.atgi.net (64.42.101.5)  107.854 ms
 5  Serial3-9.GW9.PAO1.ALTER.NET (157.130.212.113)  20.700 ms  20.546 ms
se11.cr1.paixpa.atgi.net (64.42.101.58)  21.530 ms
 6  Serial3-9.GW9.PAO1.ALTER.NET (157.130.212.113)  21.370 ms  21.088 ms
20.689 ms
 7  136.ATM3-0.XR1.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.52.194)  22.421 ms  21.353 ms
22.142 ms
 8  189.at-3-0-0.HR1.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.193)  20.896 ms  20.743 ms
26.401 ms
 9  324.ATM2-0.VR1.PAO1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.249)  25.629 ms  37.328 ms
32.634 ms
10  63.113.184.226 (63.113.184.226)  40.726 ms  40.008 ms  40.901 ms
11  63.113.184.226 (63.113.184.226)  41.952 ms  261.623 ms  42.909 ms

Perhaps there is some misconfiguration on your box.  Can you do an ifconfig
and paste it into a message?

Anyone else know anything about this?

--Chris