The routes between slac and caltech look similar: traceroute to plato.cacr.caltech.edu (131.215.144.226), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 rtr-gsr-test (134.79.243.1) 0.163 ms 0.109 ms 0.103 ms 2 rtr-dmz1-ger (134.79.135.15) 0.314 ms 0.243 ms 0.236 ms 3 i2-gateway.stanford.edu (192.68.191.83) 0.233 ms 0.203 ms 0.203 ms 4 STAN.POS.calren2.NET (171.64.1.213) 0.307 ms 0.312 ms 0.343 ms 5 UCSF--STAN.POS.calren2.net (198.32.249.2) 2.850 ms 2.905 ms 2.807 ms 6 UCOP--UCSF.POS.calren2.net (198.32.249.6) 3.345 ms 3.246 ms 3.294 ms 7 dc-oak-dc1--c2-ucop-gsr-ge.cenic.net (137.164.22.84) 3.761 ms 3.530 ms 3.768 ms 8 dc-svl-dc1--oak-dc1.cenic.net (137.164.22.53) 116.499 ms 179.414 ms 11.729 ms 9 dc-lax-dc1--svl-dc1-ge.cenic.net (137.164.22.88) 24.268 ms 203.545 ms 206.365 ms 10 lax.losnettos-mach244.cenic.net (137.164.24.244) 13.218 ms 13.064 ms 13.237 ms 11 137.164.27.246 (137.164.27.246) 13.511 ms 13.652 ms 13.732 ms 12 Booth-RSM.ilan.caltech.edu (131.215.254.253) 13.524 ms 13.689 ms 13.758 ms 13 CACR-ITS-BMR.caltech.edu (131.215.5.147) 13.795 ms 13.790 ms 13.443 ms 14 plato.cacr.caltech.edu (131.215.144.226) 13.607 ms 13.903 ms 13.415 ms 4iepm@iphicles:~>ssh cottrell@plato.cacr.caltech.edu [cottrell@plato ~]$ /usr/sbin/traceroute iphicles.slac.stanford.edu traceroute to iphicles.slac.stanford.edu (134.79.240.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 defaultroute (131.215.144.254) 0.180 ms 0.138 ms 0.133 ms 2 ITS-CACR-BMR.caltech.edu (131.215.5.145) 0.180 ms 0.164 ms 0.163 ms 3 SFL-border.ilan.caltech.edu (131.215.254.252) 0.189 ms 0.193 ms 0.173 ms 4 lax-hpr.losnettos-dc.cenic.net (137.164.24.241) 1.279 ms 1.119 ms 1.315 ms 5 dc-svl-dc1--lax-dc1-ge.cenic.net (137.164.22.89) 9.252 ms 10.553 ms 9.712 ms 6 dc-oak-dc1--svl-dc1-10ge.cenic.net (137.164.22.31) 16.214 ms 10.217 ms 10.572 ms 7 dc-c2-ucop-gsr--oak-dc1-ge.cenic.net (137.164.22.85) 10.356 ms 10.286 ms 10.106 ms 8 UCSF--UCOP.POS.calren2.net (198.32.249.5) 10.931 ms 10.754 ms 10.616 ms 9 STAN--UCSF.POS.calren2.net (198.32.249.1) 13.123 ms 13.066 ms 13.006 ms 10 i2-gateway.Stanford.EDU (171.64.1.214) 13.190 ms 13.560 ms 13.276 ms 11 * * * 12 * * * 13 iphicles.slac.stanford.edu (134.79.240.36) 13.591 ms 13.335 ms 13.822 ms [cottrell@plato ~]$