Re: traceroute bug ?

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 14:33:13 EST


On Jan 27, 2006, at 13:38, Gerold van Dijk wrote:
Why can I NOT do a traceroute specifically within my own (sub)network
207.253.5.64/27

What part of "trace" "route" do you not understand? If you are talking to your own subnet, there are no routers in between, so clearly there is nothing to trace. A packet with TTL 0 is invalid, and a packet with TTL 1 will get to the host.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

--
Somone asked me why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/ philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Schulz had the best answer:

"Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life."
-- Charles Schulz


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/