Subject: RE: traceroute only shows beginning and end
To: 'George Georgalis' <george@galis.org>
From: Michael D. Spence <spence@panix.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/26/2006 10:00:10
> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-users-owner@NetBSD.org 
> [mailto:netbsd-users-owner@NetBSD.org] On Behalf Of George Georgalis
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:48 AM
> To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: traceroute only shows beginning and end
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:58:53PM -0400, Michael D. Spence wrote:
> >I recently got a new FIOS connection from Verizon.  There's a
> >fancy router that comes with the package.  It works well, except
> >when I do a traceroute via the router, every hop has the endpoint's
> >address (although there do seem to be the correct number of hops).
> > 
> >What would make traceroute do this?  Could it be some sort of NAT
> >misconfiguration?  (It's definitely the router, because if I use my
> >other connection, all is correct.)
> 
> weird. does pkgsrc/net/mtr do the same thing?
> 

I expect it will.  On further investigation, tcpdump reports that the 
"time exceeded" packets have the wrong source address, which really
sounds like a bug in the router to me.

 
 
Michael D. Spence
Mockingbird Data Systems, Inc.