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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:23:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      David@webedited.com
To:        Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net>
Cc:        Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Traceroute issues
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303121518140.2416-100000@buzz.frogspace.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030312165324.GB398@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote:

> > At 09:13 PM 3/11/03 -0800, Daxbert wrote:
> > >Quoting Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>:
> > >
> > >>       Hi all.  Got a really weird issue here.  Got a router that
> > >> uses simple nat that for some reason won't allow me to traceroute
> > >> out of my freebsd box, but every other computer connected to the
> > >> router can, and can traceroute with flying colors.  What might
> > >> possibly be wrong with my machine that I can't traceroute anywhere?
> > >
> > >Could if be that the other hosts are using ICMP instead of UDP for 
> > >traceroute?
 
> This may not be the issue in the first place, but if you want to try an
> ICMP traceroute do: `traceroute -P icmp <host>`.

I had/have the same issue with my D-link router. Originally I was using
bridging on my Freebsd box so thought it I had set that up wrong, or it
simply broke traceroute. However, it also occured without the bridging.
Using -P icmp solves the issue completely for me.

DG


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