Weird traceroute problem

Toni Schmidbauer toni at stderror.at
Thu Apr 3 00:47:59 PST 2003


On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:08:52PM +1000, Christopher Smith wrote:
> I have two firewalls - the second is being prepped to replace the 
> first.  All networking from the second machine appears to be fine 
> *except* traceroute looks broken.  This happens:

could it be that your second maschine blocks all incoming icmp
traffic? so the traceroute udp packets are leaving your network but
the time exceeded or port unreachable icmp packets coming back are
blocked?  

toni
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