Checking internet connection without a winbox

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 15:54, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> However, I need to learn something. tracroute when I run it does not
> report lost packets, even if I use the -I option. What am I missing?

Traceroute sends three packets with each time-to-live.  If you
get three times reported at each hop, no packets were lost.  You
should see a '*' for missing results.  However, realize that a
lost packet for any hop could have been lost at any point
along the way or back.

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  Les Mikesell
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