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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
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Subject: Re: UDP Traceroute on FreeBSD
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:52:38 +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Can anyone tell me whether FreeBSD is able to respond to traceroute
> packets transported over UDP?

That could be possible. You can verify it by instructing the
traceroute program to issue UDP packets, but it will listen
for an ICMP answer, if I remember that mechanism correctly.
Then inspect the packets with Wireshark.

See "man traceroute" for details. Consider asking the question
on the freebsd-hackers@ or freebsd-net@ mailing lists. The
answer to your question is located somewhere in the system's
network stack. ;-)


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Polytropon
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