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This is a fairly common question that is asked so put down some thoughts Short answer:If you see a percentage of loss at any particular hop, that may be an indication that there is a problem with that particular router. However, it is common practice among some service providers to rate limit the ICMP traffic that MTR uses. This can give the illusion of packet loss when there is in fact no loss. To determine

A Looking Glass or LG is a way to “look” into someone’s network so you can see what they see.Below are a list of various exchange points and networks.DE-CIX : https://lg.de-cix.netINEX : https://www.inex.ie/ixp/lgINX-ZA : https://lg.inx.net.zaLondon Internet Exchange : https://alice-rs.linx.netNetnod : https://lg.netnod.seCogent http://www.cogentco.com/en/network/looking-glassVodafone https://support.cw.com/prod/tools_lookingglass.htmlCT http://ipms.chinatelecomglobal.com/public/lookglass/lookglassDisclaimer.htmlTelia https://lg.telia.net/ATT: telnet route-server.ip.att.netTelkom: telnet tpr-route-server.saix.net/Level3: https://lookingglass.level3.net/NTT https://www.us.ntt.net/support/looking-glass/http://lg.retn.netSeacom : https://as37100.net/?lookingglassNTT : https://www.gin.ntt.net/looking-glass/Workonline https://as37271.fyi/looking-glass OVH https://lg.ovh.net Not quite an LG but can run tests like ping and Traceroute from a host in hetzner in DE https://lg.fsn.fognet.ch

Update : 6 November 2021. Radek Zajic from Showmax CDN posted some information on how to troubleshoot some Showmax/DSTV now issues. see the post in the list archives https://lists.nog.net.za/pipermail/zanog-discuss/2021-November/001339.html notes while working with issue where DSTVnow is blocking IP ranges so unable to watch IP addresses for some reason picked up as Hosting Providers and flagged as Proxy/VPN services, and therefor blocked Some sites to check the geolocation/type and reputation of IP addresseshttps://db-ip.comhttps://www.ipqualityscore.com/ip-reputation-check/lookup/https://www.abuseipdb.com/https://www.ip2location.com/ https://ipinfodb.com/ uses

Add route to macOSsudo route -n add -net 10.0.0.0/8 172.19.5.78 Add route to ubuntu sudo route add -net 172.31.255.0/24 gw 172.16.1.2 eno2 Show routing table ubuntu route -n ip routenetstat -rn

Note to Self about Resizing Disk on Proxmox VM and then extending the Partition. Also reference here : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Resize_disks Resize VM disk on Proxmox Exampleqm resize 101 virtio-iscsi +100G log into the Linux VM fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep ^/dev can use cfdisk to check size of partitionscfdisk Extend the partition in Linuxroot@36826:~# growpart /dev/sda 2CHANGED: partition=2 start=1501182 old: size=837357570 end=838858752 new: size=1047074785,end=1048575967root@36826:~# growpart /dev/sda 5CHANGED: partition=5 start=1501184 old: size=837357568 end=838858752 new: size=1047074783,end=1048575967 resize the