traceroute replacement

Roy-Magne Mo rmo at sunnmore.net
Sat Nov 12 22:38:41 UTC 2005


Radek Vokál wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  there's a new package suggested as traceroute replacement. It works
> without requiring a setuid bit. 
> 
> <snip>
> This traceroute implementation relies on a number of features of the
> 2.4 Linux kernel. It works pretty much like ANK's tracepath, but 
> tries to be command line compatible with the original traceroute.
> I also has IPv6 support, and does parallel probes, which makes it
> a little faster.
> </snip>
> 
> The replacement is missing some options on which some scripts might
> depend on. Please test the package 
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/rvokal/traceroute/traceroute-1.0.3-3.src.rpm
> 
> and report any problems to this bugzilla
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172198


Any chance that the ICMP option can be reintroduced or the -P (protocol) 
option as in *BSD.

It's quite nice to see what windows-people are seeing with their tracert.

-- 
Roy-Magne Mo




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