(regarding your 2nd message.......)

When you see all that red show up in a trace, it's only natural to think something is wrong. However, as long as this packet loss doesn't carry through to the destination, it's not something to worry about!

This sort of packet loss indicates that these hops are "de-prioritizing" or dropping ICMP Time Exceeded responses. This behavior affects only the returning information and does not affect forwarded packets.

If you're interested, here are a couple of articles that can explain this concept a bit more:

- https://www.pingplotter.com/wisdom/article/latency-packet-loss.html

- http://www.pingman.com/kb/5

I hope this helps to make sense of your results better! Let us know if you've got any other questions on the matter.

Austin Berner
Customer Support Specialist - Pingman Tools