Grovelling through the network

[sawyl]

Somehow I seem to have got myself into a position where I've spent most of my day looking at FTP packet headers and running numbers through a couple of statistical tools in search of a pattern. However only real pattern I've been able to find so far is that the performance numbers are far worse than I'd expected. There are tantalising signs of on-going data lossage which suggest that our system isn't at fault, but sadly this doesn't seem to have absolved me of as much of the burden of tracking down the root cause as I'd hoped...