Re: Intent To Split: netbase
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Incidentally, if one wants to argue by analogy, traceroute is more similar
> to ping than it is to ifconfig or route, because both traceroute and ping
> actually send ICMP packets out over the interface, and neither ifconfig nor
Hmm, I didn't know that traceroute sent ICMP packets by default. Are you
sure you are talking about /usr/sbin/traceroute?
Anyway, from my personal experience,
ifconfig/route/ping/traceroute/snmpnetstat are often used together to
diagnose problems (or just waste time and bandwidth).
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