Subject: Re: New gre interface
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/14/1998 07:38:03
In article <19980913224613.10331@pilhuhn.de>,
	"Heiko W.Rupp" <hwr@pilhuhn.de> writes:
>   Traceroute does not work yet over the tunnel :(

This is AFAIK not a bug in your GRE code. Routing packes through the
tunnel will requires less hops. So if the remote host doesn't use a tunnel
route back it ICMP replies will have a too low TTL to reach your system.

You can watch the same phenomenon with Linux's IPIP tunnel.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/