CPF affecting internet/tracert readings? [RESOLVED]

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#1

Here is a tracert with comodo running

Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [209.131.36.158]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 17 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 14 ms 6 ms 10 ms 10.213.96.1
3 8 ms 6 ms 6 ms 68-116-79-233.or.charter.com [68.116.79.233]
4 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 68-116-79-133.or.charter.com [68.116.79.133]
5 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms svl-edge-09.inet.qwest.net [65.113.33.109]
6 24 ms 27 ms 26 ms svl-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.14.97]
7 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms pax-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.205.30]
8 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms if-1-1.core3.PDI-PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net [207.45.
213.133]
9 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms ix-6-2.core3.PDI-PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net [207.45.
213.130]
10 81 ms 26 ms 26 ms ae0-p140.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com [216.115.107.49]
11 27 ms 28 ms 26 ms te-8-1.bas-a1.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.32.17]
12 26 ms 27 ms 26 ms f1.www.vip.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.36.158]

Trace complete.

Here is the other one with CPF not running…

Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [209.131.36.158]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 6 ms 5 ms 6 ms 10.213.96.1
3 7 ms 8 ms 6 ms 68-116-79-233.or.charter.com [68.116.79.233]
4 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 68-116-79-133.or.charter.com [68.116.79.133]
5 26 ms 26 ms 25 ms svl-edge-09.inet.qwest.net [65.113.33.109]
6 26 ms 26 ms 25 ms svl-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.14.97]
7 26 ms 25 ms 29 ms pax-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.205.30]
8 27 ms 25 ms 25 ms if-1-1.core3.PDI-PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net [207.45.
213.133]
9 53 ms 24 ms 26 ms ix-6-2.core3.PDI-PaloAlto.Teleglobe.net [207.45.
213.130]
10 27 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae0-p150.msr2.sp1.yahoo.com [216.115.107.73]
11 28 ms 26 ms 28 ms te-8-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.32.19]
12 26 ms 26 ms 25 ms f1.www.vip.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.36.158]

Trace complete.

What is causing this? Is it a cause for concern?

#2

Comodo doesn’t have a web shield and I do not believe Comodo is causing this. Did you make FF and IE a web browser under the firewall policy?

#3

What is the difference here? Maybe Im blind but I see no diefference between them except that few ms ping.

#4

What does CFP “running” & CFP “not running” actually mean, specifically? CFP is an easy thing to “disable”, but difficult to make “not running”.

If you’re looking at hop 10 in the first test: Anything beyond hop 1… maybe hop 2 in some cases… is unlikely to be impacted by a local system event.

To account for the dynamic nature of the Net, you’d need to run multiple, longer duration, tests over different time frames as well. One tracert isn’t really enough to tell you what is going on.

#5

What you’re seeing s sometime called “asymmetric routing”. It’s simply a side effect of what the traffic level is at a given router at a given moment, and what policy that router is programmed to use when it gets too much to do and it needs to keep the traffic flowing. Services like akadns.net design their networks with redundant paths and alternative routes so they can handle the traffic load. That’s their business, and what they sell is load capacity. Your traceroutes, at hop 9 hand off the packets to the akadns network mesh and packets will take whatever path is least congested at the moment.

#6

I just done that right now. Did I do it correctly? I right clicked on FF and IE7 then clicked edit and chose Use a Predefined Policy and selected Web Browser. Maybe this is why my browsing speed has been a bit slower since installing cpf since I did not do this in the first place with my browsers.

#7

Could be…try it out.

#8

Seems to have done the trick. Things are much much more snappy and no lag. I swear I learn some thing new every time I come here. Also with tracert. Line 1 is consistent to 1ms all across every time with cpf running.

#9

(R) (S) :BNC

#10

Closed! :slight_smile:

Josh