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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: question concerning traceroute?
$author = "Darrell Carley" ; > > I am trying to troubleshoot a latency issue for some of our networks, > and was wondering about this.Knowing that routing isn't always > symmetrical, is it possible for a traceroute to traverse a different > reverse path, than the path that it took to get there? .or will it > provide a trace of the path the packet took to reach the destination? > According to definition, is should take the same path, but are there any > other cases that I should be aware of? a traceroute shows the outbound route. it's possible for the the probe packets to follow one path and the returning icmp packets to take another path. a looking glass in the AS your tracing to is a good way to see what the return path is... marty -- Close your brown eyes, And lay down next to me. Close your eyes, lay down. 'Cos there goes the fear, Let it go. "There Goes the Fear" - Doves
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