traceroute lacks icmp support

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Thu Sep 21 13:21:20 UTC 2006


FC5 has a replaced traceroute implementation, which unfortunately has no 
icmp support
("traceroute -I":  the ability to send icmp echo packets instead of 
udp). The corresponding bugzilla ticket is #176587 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176587> .

The icmp feature of traceroute is wide-used enough. To avoid an 
unexpected shock of the network admins, this issue should be mentioned 
in ReleaseNotes.

I.e., please, mention some way in FC6's Release Notes that the current 
traceroute implementation temporarily lacks icmp support.


Dmitry Butskoy
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