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To: David Lawrence who wrote (3153)	11/3/1998 5:26:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32871

>> The three numbers are the return time for each of the three packets sent to each hop. The numbers are, exactly as you say, the return time for each hop; however, they're cumulative, which I expect you know but wasn't quite clear in the post. That is, the number for each later hop includes the routing through the earlier hops. They don't add up (statistically) because much of the delay occurs in the response, not in the forwarding. (Of course they don't add up at all in specific cases because each trial is an independent message to a different IP address.) I'm sure you know this, but for general reader info, to get a true picture do both TRACERT and PING of the destination. Tracert tells you how you got there and can identify the bottlenecks; ping gives you the overall route response (which should roughly correspond to the last tracert output). Ping doesn't actually add anything, but it nets it out for you.