[53484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traceroute from A to B
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Nov 15 18:25:19 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:24:47 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Minseok Kwon <kwonm@cs.purdue.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0211150830490.12676-100000@tigris.cs.purdue.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Absent source routing capability, you will need to be on one of the
machines.
It is also important to understand that traceroute displays the route from
a to b while depending on both the route from a to b and the route from each
hop to the source of the traceroute probe packets. It will only display
the addresses of the interface that received the probe packets.
Owen
--On Friday, November 15, 2002 8:39 -0500 Minseok Kwon
<kwonm@cs.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> Is there a way or tool to find the route between two arbitrary hosts from
> one of my local machines? In other words, given two host IP addresses A
> and B, I would like to find the route between A and B. I can use a source
> route, 'traceroute -g', to approximate the route. I have tried this
> option. Lots of routers, however, do not accept source routes. Any help
> will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
