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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:11:07 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at
Cc:        achilov@granch.ru, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AW: deny incoming icmp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008171140430.83893-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <C96996C3D753D311A5400001FAF86B258E2A08@ntli02-003.lsr-ooe.gv.at>

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On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 Egon.Rath@lsr-ooe.gv.at wrote:

> 
> |> 
> |> What type of ICMP messages uses traceroute? I'd like to mask 
> |> internal network structure from
> |> tracing...
> |> -- 
> 
> Traceroute uses ICMP types 0 (Echo Reply), 8 (Echo request) and 11 (TTL
> expired) to determine the route to the host.

That's winblows traceroute. Unix traceroute uses UDP instead of icmp
echo. The icmp that come back are 11/0 (time exeeded in transit)
and several type 3 (host unreach, net unreach, and port unreach.) .
  
take a look at http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/vanj.99feb08.txt
to see why.

> Yours, Egon
> 
> 
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