At 01:14 PM 9/14/01, Wilson, Bradley wrote:
>What you're seeing isn't a problem related to timeouts.  Essentially, all a
>"trace" is is a series of regular ICMP pings with incremening TTL fields.

Agreed, but just wanted to add that Cisco and Unix send a UDP packet when 
doing traceroute, not a ping. Microsoft sends an ICMP ping.

>If a particular router (say, the last hop when your TTL is set to 4) is
>configured to not respond to pings, you'll get a timeout.

Only the last device would respond to the ping anyway. But the router could 
be rate limiting TTL exceeded messages or configured not to send them.

Priscilla

>However, the
>routers on either side of it (the ones you hit when your TTL is set to 3 or
>5, respectively) may respond to pings normally.  Really nothing you can do
>about the one that timed out if it's not under your administrative control.
>
>BJ
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: khramov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 12:06 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: traceroute [7:19963]
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>
>sometimes when I do a traceroute it skeeps some routers.  Is there any
>way to adjusst time out or something to get traceroute to show all the
>routers that packet is going through?
>
>Regards,
>Alex
>
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