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RE: question concerning traceroute?
From: "Kris Foster" <Kris.Foster () telus com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:52:03 -0600
a traceroute shows the outbound route. it's possible for the the probe packets to follow one path and the returning icmp packets to take another path. a looking glass in the AS your tracing to is a good way to see what the return path is...
The returning ICMP packets may take many different paths back to the sender of the UDPs, since each hop will make it's own decision on how to return to the source (not just the single asymmetric path from the destination of the UDPs). Kris
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- Re: question concerning traceroute?, (continued)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? Jared Mauch (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? alex (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? David Howe (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? Martin (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? Stephen Stuart (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? k claffy (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? Arnold Nipper (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? Sean Donelan (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? k claffy (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? Andy Johnson (Oct 17)
- Re: question concerning traceroute? Lane Patterson (Oct 17)
- RE: question concerning traceroute? Kris Foster (Oct 17)