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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:16:46 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        jer@jorsm.com (Jeremy Shaffner)
Cc:        marcus@miami.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Traceroutes to Cisco Routers
Message-ID:  <199808141216.HAA12804@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980813173729.22777K-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> from Jeremy Shaffner at "Aug 13, 98 05:41:07 pm"

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In a previous message, Jeremy Shaffner said:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Here is why the trace fails:
> > 
> > Cisco throttles ICMP unreachables so that only 2 unreachables per second
> > are sent.  The result puts a star in one of the fields:
> > 
> > i.e. (200 ms) (200 ms) *
> > 
> 
> Fair enough.  But it's dropping the second and not the third.  And it
> doesn't explain why non-Unix OS's trace to it fine.
> 

None Unix code may be using pings with specific TTLs instead of icmps, for
transport.



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