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From: Florian Boelstler <euphoria@web.de>
To: netfilter <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: traceroute
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 01:06:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E34775.5010802@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406302339.02075.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>

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Antony Stone wrote:
>>By looking at other posts in this thread I've learned that traceroutes
>>are done with echo-requests. Is this true for Linux 2.6.6 ?
>
>
> No, that's true for Windows systems.   Unix machines (Linux included)
uses
> high-port numbered UDP packets.
>
> Therefore you need to allow UDP packets to leave your machine for you
to be
> able to run traceroute from it.

Hmm, this could end up in an unfeasible task, when I do not allow
unrestricted output.

I just found out that traceroute offers a -I switch, that uses ICMP echo
requests instead.
On the other hand one could use -p for a specific base port to get a
certain determinism.

   Florian



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-30 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-30 13:05 traceroute Peter Marshall
2004-06-30 13:29 ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 21:47   ` traceroute Florian Boelstler
2004-06-30 21:52     ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 22:36       ` traceroute Florian Boelstler
2004-06-30 22:39         ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 23:06           ` Florian Boelstler [this message]
2004-07-01  9:21           ` traceroute Jozsef Kadlecsik
2004-07-01  9:30             ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-07-01 10:27               ` traceroute Jozsef Kadlecsik
2004-07-01 12:15             ` traceroute Cedric Blancher
2004-07-01  0:16     ` traceroute Cedric Blancher
2004-06-30 14:04 ` traceroute Ruprecht Helms
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-01  9:52 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-07-01 12:25 ` traceroute Cedric Blancher
2004-06-30 18:20 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 20:55 ` traceroute Cedric Blancher
2004-07-01  8:19 ` traceroute Jozsef Kadlecsik
2004-06-30 16:28 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 16:47 ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 16:10 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 16:21 ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 16:25 ` traceroute Peter Marshall
2004-06-30 17:00   ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 15:21 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 18:17 ` traceroute Jozsef Kadlecsik
2004-06-30 20:51 ` traceroute Cedric Blancher
2004-06-30 15:10 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 15:19 ` traceroute Jozsef Kadlecsik
2004-06-30 15:33 ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 14:52 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 14:36 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 14:34 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 14:50 ` traceroute Peter Marshall
2004-06-30 14:57 ` traceroute Antony Stone
2004-06-30 13:47 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-30 14:25 ` traceroute Peter Marshall
2004-06-30 13:33 traceroute Piszcz, Justin Michael
2004-06-13 13:55 traceroute Prash
2004-06-13 14:53 ` traceroute Cedric Blancher

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