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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:19:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
To:        Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Traceroutes to Cisco Routers
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.02.9808131818590.26419-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980813154409.14378C-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>

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There is a reason for this.  It is in the way the cisco handles
traceroutes, and it is normal.  I'm going to find some docs on it and mail
them to you.  Hopefully I'll be able to get them to you tonight.

Joe Clarke

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Jeremy Shaffner wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Jeremy, I'd love to help.  What does a trace from the Cisco to the fbsd
> > box show?  Cisco does traces a little different that UNIX boxes.  We use
> > UDP on the outbound, and receive icmp on the inbound.  Also, what version
> > of the IOS are you running?  I'm sure our engineers here would love to
> > know that FreeBSD and Cisco products have a conflict.  I'll do more
> > reasearch, and let you know what I find.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Traces from the Cisco (it's IOS 11.2(12)) out are fine.
> 
> So far traces from these *nix systems have the same result:
> 
> FreeBSD (2.1.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.6, 2.2.7)
> NetBSD 1.2.1
> OpenBSD 2.1
> BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 
> Redhat 4.2 (2.0.30)
> Sun Ultra 2 (Solaris 2.5.1)
> Alpha (OSF/1 3.2).
> 
> Do these all share the same traceroute code?  At first I thought it was a
> BSDism, but so far every Unix system it's tried on gives the same thing.
> 
> Remember that traces run from Windows and Macs seem to work.
> 
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