On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:34:51AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Hmm, I didn't know that traceroute sent ICMP packets by default. Are you > sure you are talking about /usr/sbin/traceroute? Point taken. It had been a while since I read the manpage; it uses regular IP packets and manipulates the TTL field. > Anyway, from my personal experience, > ifconfig/route/ping/traceroute/snmpnetstat are often used together to > diagnose problems (or just waste time and bandwidth). Tons of people use ping and traceroute without needing to invoke ifconfig, route, or any form of netstat tool; for instance, when diagnosing routing problems farther away than the interface card in the local machine. If this practice sounds foreign to you, then you either live on a more reliable Internet than I do or are much more indifferent to network problems. -- G. Branden Robinson | A great work of art has never caused any Debian GNU/Linux | social problems. Social problems are branden@debian.org | caused by those trying to protect http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | society from great works of art.
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