Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:16:53 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UDP Traceroute on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20161003151653.bc9887c8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <76dab24c-6c16-4935-779a-a9ef65df8d18@seacom.mu> References: <76dab24c-6c16-4935-779a-a9ef65df8d18@seacom.mu>
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:52:38 +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > Can anyone tell me whether FreeBSD is able to respond to traceroute > packets transported over UDP? That could be possible. You can verify it by instructing the traceroute program to issue UDP packets, but it will listen for an ICMP answer, if I remember that mechanism correctly. Then inspect the packets with Wireshark. See "man traceroute" for details. Consider asking the question on the freebsd-hackers@ or freebsd-net@ mailing lists. The answer to your question is located somewhere in the system's network stack. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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