Re: rfc 1812 third party address on traceroute

[Randy Bush <randy () psg com>]

> >                .-----------------.
> >                |                 |
> >                |               B |--------- D
> >     S ---------| A      R        |
> >                |               C |--------- (toward S)
> >                |                 |
> >                `-----------------'
> >
> > of course, simpletons such as i would desire the source of the time
> > exceeded message to be A.  after all, this is the interface to which i
> > sent the icmp with the TTL to expire.
>
> Do you mean the source address or the source interface?

the source address

> I'm not sure if you mean that, if sent through C it should have the
> source addres of A, or that it should actually be sent through A
> regardless of the routing table (which sounds better to me).

not to me.  i have kinda grown used to fibs

randy