[96380] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Mon May 7 04:15:06 2007
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 01:14:12 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- ltd@interlink.com.au wrote:
From: "Lincoln Dale" <ltd@interlink.com.au>
To: "'Joe Maimon'" <jmaimon@ttec.com>
> The standard control plane arguments dont apply
> when the pattern holds all the way through to
> equipment under your {remote-}control.
:
: it most certainly does. lets use an example
: network of:
: F
: |
:A---B---C---D---E
: |
: G
:
:
: you are looking at ICMP/traceroute responses
: through sending traffic to/from A & E.
:
:for all you know, there may be an ICMP DDoS attack
What about something as simplistic as tcptraceroute? It won't give you path MTU info, but there're other tools that can.
scott
