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Why does hop 1 (or any number of initial hops) lose packets 100% of the time?

April 26, 2017hop hops initial lose packets time

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Why does hop 1 (or any number of initial hops) lose packets 100% of the time?

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Often your local router just doesn’t respond (or respond fast enough) to ICMP requests. If you have this happening, you can ignore the initial hops that are timing out (View/Ignore first hop(s)).