Re: schein.debian.org
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> >
> >> Assume the peer starts with a TTL of 64 that gives you reasonable
> >> numbers.
> >
> > Yes, it does. I just don't know if it IS a correct measurement, or just
> > looks like it.
>
> It is a guess, as documented in tha man page.
>
> The problem is that the guess is only applied to the intermediate hops
> (so you do get the correct "assym" values) but not to the final one.
>
> Moving the guessing logic so that it's always applied regardless of ICMP
> error will fix it:
The patch would work, but this is the wrong fix, IMO. Instead, upstream
should change that crap to report the value of "rethops" in the first place,
and let the human do the guesswork...
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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