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Re: Traceroute from A to B

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Fri Nov 15 18:26:59 2002

Absent source routing capability, you will need to be on one of the machines.
It is also important to understand that traceroute displays the route from
a to b while depending on both the route from a to b and the route from each
hop to the source of the traceroute probe packets. It will only display
the addresses of the interface that received the probe packets.

Owen


--On Friday, November 15, 2002 8:39 -0500 Minseok Kwon <[email protected]> wrote:

Is there a way or tool to find the route between two arbitrary hosts from
one of my local machines? In other words, given two host IP addresses A
and B, I would like to find the route between A and B. I can use a source
route, 'traceroute -g', to approximate the route. I have tried this
option. Lots of routers, however, do not accept source routes. Any help
will be appreciated. Thanks.