Making ICMP the default traceroute protocol?
Marian Durkovic
md at bts.sk
Mon Jan 24 08:02:52 PST 2005
Hi all,
seems that in today's networking environment the original traceroute
concept utilising high UDP ports no longer works - since those ports
are now typically blocked by firewalls.
However, when traceroute is performed using ICMP protocol, the results
are much better.
Therefore, I'd like to propose to patch
src/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.c
so the ICMP protocol is the first one in
struct outproto protos[] = {
and thus the default protocol used by traceroute.
With kind regards,
M.
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