You geeks are really letting me down here

On Fri, May 31, 2019, 8:11 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:

> My thought is a utility that initiates the trace, identifies the hops it
> can, queries the looking glasses, identifies the return per hop on the path
> and icmp expires the identified return path.... would be a cumbersome
> process manually.
> I have one of those "some sites work, some sites dont" issues im working
> on with a banks IT. I think its their firewall based on the pcaps, but when
> im looking at it from the middle its hard to rule out an assymetric path
> issue with one of those one off issues like some freaked out mtu along the
> way
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2019, 8:04 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thats kind of the point of the question
>>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2019, 5:35 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Gotta have someone at the other end traceroute back to you.
>>>
>>> IMO Traceroute is kinda useless anyway these days.  If you're lucky
>>> it'll tell you what L3 routers are in the path, but all manner of
>>> tunneling/switching/MPLS stuff is invisible to traceroute.  The only other
>>> diagnostic info it gives you is the total of the time that router took to
>>> generate an ICMP error message and the time it took that error message to
>>> come back to you.... and you can't assume that ICMP message came back to
>>> you on the same path normal traffic to and from your destination would have
>>> taken.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/31/2019 6:20 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a tool similar to traceroute to view both paths in an
>>> asymmetric path. Maybe something that queries looking glass then multipings
>>>
>>>
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