On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Coffin Michael C wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Yes, pinging works fine to/from the guests. In fact all IP traffic to/from > the guests works fine - but traceroute shows this timeout at .46 (the VM > TCPIP server). I'd just like to understand why it times out and clear it up > if possible.
It's not responmding to the icmp messages used by traceroute. I often see it when checking sites on ADSL: [root@Nectarine root]# traceroute terad.net traceroute to terad.net (203.15.140.104), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 gw.home.Computerdatasafe.com.au (192.168.2.1) 0.808 ms 0.543 ms 1.065 ms 2 gw.home.Computerdatasafe.com.au (192.168.1.1) 176.685 ms 137.014 ms 139.944 ms 3 172.31.22.178 (172.31.22.178) 169.992 ms 158.247 ms 159.929 ms 4 172.31.24.178 (172.31.24.178) 159.992 ms 158.260 ms 172.31.25.178 (172.31.25.178) 160.026 ms 5 atm2-0-37.perth.westnet.com.au (202.72.130.145) 168.286 ms 157.388 ms atm2-0-36.perth.westnet.com.au (202.72.130.149) 169.889 ms 6 bdr1.westnet.com.au (203.10.1.1) 177.083 ms 157.272 ms 160.139 ms 7 198.32.212.49 (198.32.212.49) 169.821 ms 168.238 ms 159.930 ms 8 tarantula-adsl-trunk.arach.net.au (203.30.44.222) 189.993 ms 177.257 ms 179.926 ms 9 * * * 10 * * * 11 terad.net (203.15.140.104) 206.853 ms 187.227 ms 189.935 ms [root@Nectarine root]# > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
