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On 29 Oct 2002 at 20:51, Brett Frankenberger wrote: Brett! Long time, no hear, now that the Nortel/Bay newsgroup has pretty much wound down. Like Usenet in general. > Addressing just the issue of how traceroute works, I'll point out that > (a) Most or all flavors of traceroute distributed by Microsoft use ICMP > ECHO instead of UDP for the outbound packets [...] ...And I rather like that method. It's sad, but I'll not allow random high-port UDP to my stations. > FWIW, I don't think rate limiting ICMP is likely to have a negative > impact. I also don't think it's a good idea, though -- it might help > to identify or prevent some problems in the short term, but in the long > run, it's a race we can't win [...] Hmmm. Agreed. Peter E. Fry
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