[52811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: question concerning traceroute?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Thu Oct 17 10:54:57 2002
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: Darrell Carley <darrell@national-net.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <023601c275ec$237113a0$6690a8c0@nipper.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> > > According to definition, is should take the same path, but are there any
> > > other cases that I should be aware of?
> >
> > According to the definition, it is going to show you the path the packets
> > took from you to the destination, not from the destination back.
> >
>
> Unless you did "- g",
Not correct. -g specifies loose source routing on the way *there*, not back.
Alex
