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On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 00:31, Chris J wrote:
> I'm a little confused; Andy - by tracepath do you mean traceroute? 

Get with the programme, Granddad ;)


TRACEPATH(8)           System Manager's Manual: iputils           
 
NAME
	tracepath,  tracepath6  - traces path to a network host
	discovering MTU along this path
 
SYNOPSIS
	tracepath destination [ port]
 
DESCRIPTION
	It traces path to destination discovering MTU along this path. 
	It uses UDP port port or some random port.  It is similar to
	traceroute, only does not not require superuser privileges and
	has no fancy options.

> Either way, traceroute on UNIX has always used UDP, so won't be affected
> by ICMP blocking.

It actually would be if they were blocking ICMP; the packet death would
never get back to you. But, it doesn't look like they are actually
dropping ICMP, just ping ;)

Cheers,

Alex.


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