<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> Dear RIPE NCC, for my ping measurements, I incremented the number of sent packets to 16. Now I noticed that in the measurement with the ID 28779821, the probes didn't always send 16 packets, sometimes, albeit rarely, only 7 or 3. Below you see an extract of the packets_sent data of Probe 52673. Now I wanted to ask what could possibly be the reason for that phenomena. Kind regards, Debora <pre>Probe: 52673</pre> <a class="detail-link" href="https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/28931367/">16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 5, 1, 9, 16, 16, 16, 14, 16, 16, 16, 16, 8, 13, 6, 7, 6, 6, 16, 16, 12, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 10, 11, 10, 7, 6, 16, 4, 16, 16, 16, 16, 4, 7, 15, 6, 9, 12, 11, 7, 8, 11, 6, 5, 13, 13, 13, 5, 10, 16, 16, 7, 7, 9, 7, 7, 7, 9, 16, 16, 11, 4, 7, 16, 7, 2, 8, 16, 4, 6, 8, 16, 7, 8, 6, 5, 8, 8, 9, 8, 7, 4, 3, 10, 1, 2, 11, 6, 16, 8, 12, 6, 11, 10, 11, 8, 12, 12, 12, 11, 8, 16, 6, 5, 5, 9, 10, 6, 10, 7, 9, 10, 9, 11, 8, 8, 11, 7, 12, 7, 11, 9, 13, 2, 10, 12, 10, 7, 9, 16, 13, 5, 4, 7, 8, 6, 5, 7, 6, 7, 9, 9, 9, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 4, 9, 4, 6, 8, 6, 11, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, </a> </body> </html>