misc/61336: traceroute doesn't work with more than 85 hops

Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jan 22 21:20:18 PST 2004


The following reply was made to PR misc/61336; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Colin Percival <colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/61336: traceroute doesn't work with more than 85 hops
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:10:12 +0000

    This is more of a problem than the submitter noted: If the -q option
 is used to increase the number of packets per hop, the packet number > 255
 problem will occur correspondingly earlier.
 
 Colin Percival
 


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