semi-newbie question

Ben ben at twowaytv.co.uk
Thu Apr 24 17:48:28 BST 2003


Isn't this the thing of UDP  -v- TCP for ping and traceroute, as far as 
I remember MS uses TCP, whilst unix relateds uses UDP..?

Or am I just wiffling...?
On Thursday, Apr 24, 2003, at 17:34 Europe/London, Jon Mercer wrote:

> 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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