Re: Router appears in tracert but can't ping?
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 10:15:49, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:05, Stefan Neufeind wrote:
> > both tracert and ping use ICMP. So did they just block some kind of
> > ICMP-message (ping) for this router? How could I solve this problem?
>
> Your message was not clear, but it seems that you can see the router on a
> traceroute but can't ping it.
>
> Ping sends ICMP-ECHO packets and solicits a direct response. traceroute
> sends
> an ICMP-ECHO or a UDP packet destined for some machine beyond the router and
>
> the router sends back an ICMP time-exceeded if it's hop count has expired.
> Configuring a router to not respond to any packets addressed to itself is not
>
> uncommon, but having it send ICMP messages about packets addressed to other
> machines that it can't deliver is expected.
>
> For this reason it's not uncommon to see traceroute show 10.x.x.x or
> 192.168.x.x addresses (which are obviously not pingable).
>
> I'm not sure how the Windows program tracert compares in functionality to
> traceroute.
What I'm looking for is a possibility to see if this router (that denies ping-
packets) is still available? I have Nagios running and normally it monitors
hosts via ping. So I need a replacement that would tell me if this router on
the way to a server is reachable. I want to test the whole path to see where an
error occured. Well, is it possible to "simulate" traceroute-like packets? What
would you do to achive this?
Stefan
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