Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:46:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody know what this message means? Message-ID: <199601240846.JAA09875@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960123212747.349Z-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> from "Jaye Mathisen" at Jan 23, 96 09:28:50 pm
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As Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > This is from a tcpdump. > > > timestamp... xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > host-on-my-net icmp: time exceeded in-transit > [tos 0xc0] The TTL (time-to-live) field of a packet got zero on transmission, so the sender was notified that it got dropped. This is the usual method how traceroute works, see the man page. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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