[atlas]Probe flapping

Thanks Richard for sharing this.

What we have observed so far is that in some installations (a few percent of
them) the probe does indeed flap in a 5-15m, sometimes up to 45m cycle. In
most of these cases the probe doesn't succeed with the common traceroute at
all. In one case, we could verify that this was not specific to the probe, a
normal laptop showed the same behavior.

Maybe we could ask the hosts of these probes to tell us what kind of home
router they have, to see if there are common ones.

Cheers,
Robert



On 2010.12.17. 1:39, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
> My home probe had been flapping a lot since I first installed it.  But on Tuesday, I swapped out the router it's connected to * and it's been fine ever since **.  I think it's the fact that the new router supports IPv6 :)
> 
> --Richard
> 
> * Before: Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT.  After: Lenovo x61 running Ubuntu 10.10.
> ** Except for a single, isolated 30-minute down time
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 16, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Harald Firing Karlsen wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> My RIPE Atlas probe (MAC: 00204AC8243A) started flapping last night and is continuing to flap. It have flapped about 90 times since midnight, do you have any known problems at the moment?
>>
>> -- 
>> Kind regards
>> Harald Firing Karlsen
>>
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