semi-newbie question

Jon Mercer jon at trojan-heroes.co.uk
Thu Apr 24 17:34:30 BST 2003


NOt a helpful comment, but does anyone know if BSD and M$ implement 
traceroute differently?

Jon Mercer

Simon Gray wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Just a quick silly question. Just had dsl installed (solwise dsl router) got
>a few freebsd machines and some windows machines on it. All working
>perfectly apart from one thing.
>
>For some reason the freebsd machines (both 5.0-release) won't do
>traceroutes, will do pings/dns/everything else fine. Router isn't blocking
>icmp or anything, because it works perfectly under windows.
>
>The bsd machines aren't doing any form of firewalling or packet filtering.
>
>This is what i get from one of the freebsd machines:
>
>traceroute to www.linx.net (195.66.232.34), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1  my.router (192.168.0.1)  1.087 ms  0.764 ms  0.865 ms
> 2  * * *
> 3  * * *
>
>Any ideas? Doesn't both me that i can do traceroutes from it, just curious
>to find out why.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Simon
>
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