[189555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rfc 1812 third party address on traceroute
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jun 2 00:39:59 2016
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 21:39:54 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Octavio Alvarez <octalnanog@alvarezp.org>
In-Reply-To: <574DB70A.2010209@alvarezp.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> .-----------------.
>> | |
>> | B |--------- D
>> S ---------| A R |
>> | C |--------- (toward S)
>> | |
>> `-----------------'
>>
>> of course, simpletons such as i would desire the source of the time
>> exceeded message to be A. after all, this is the interface to which i
>> sent the icmp with the TTL to expire.
>
> Do you mean the source address or the source interface?
the source address
> I'm not sure if you mean that, if sent through C it should have the
> source addres of A, or that it should actually be sent through A
> regardless of the routing table (which sounds better to me).
not to me. i have kinda grown used to fibs
randy
