Re: Strange traceroute

[ash () ASH DE (Hauke Johannknecht)]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Troy Ablan wrote:

> addresses, so if the route were symmetric, a traceroute from the remote
> side to your box would encounter lines with all asterisks on the hops
> where the 10.x.x.x routers would be.

nopes.

a response to a traceroute should always come from the interface
that points in the "direction" of the tracroutes origin.
so an ISP can use rfc1918-adresses on the "customer"-side of his
router, but real-IP on the "outer"-side.

Gruss,
   Hauke

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