ttl-exceeded sourced by arrival interface ?
Maxim Konovalov
maxim at macomnet.ru
Tue Jan 18 04:09:44 PST 2005
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, 02:47+0100, Julien Lesaint wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a followup to the original post from James Jun, on Dec, 2003.
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-net/2003-December/002114.html
>
> Quick reminder: in the case the route to the packet's source is not the
> interface this packet arrived on, do we have a way to source ICMP errors
> (ttl-exceeded) with the original interface's IP address ?
>
> Currently the box is sending ttl-exceeded with the IP address of the
> interface the route to the sender is pointing at. No need to explain why
> such a feature would be useful - primarily for traceroute comprehension
> & routing troubleshooting, rather than for some cosmetic purposes.
Does net.inet.icmp.reply_src sysctl help?
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Maxim Konovalov
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