Shane Stockman wrote: > > My problem is that when I try to tracroute to a printer on a vlan it just > gives me the stars , but I can ping quite easily from the same switch.I had > a trace done from the mainframe and it stops at this switch and I had > another mainframe trace done from a mainframe in Europe and it still stops > at this switch.I can ping the printer address and get a 100% reply from both > mainframes. > Keep in mind that a traceroute performed by a Cisco or Unix device sends a UDP packet to a high (bogus) port (e.g., 33534). Since the target should have no application running at that port, it should reply with an ICMP port unreachable. It's possible that some device is filtering the UDP packets in the forward direction, or the ICMP unreachables in the reverse direction, while happily passing ICMP echo/echo-reply. Marty Adkins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mentor Technologies Phone: 240-568-6526 133 National Business Pkwy WWW: http://www.mentortech.com Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 Cisco CCIE #1289 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=965&t=965 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
