Re: TRACERT problem - 1st hop times out (fwd)

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Tue, 20 May 1997 14:20:21 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 20 May 1997, HAL 9000 #3 wrote:

> Technically, YES, since Microsoft's alleged traceroute doesn't conform
> to the standard for traceroute, and supporting it is therefore a
> deviation from standard...

This is true and this is also why when I get people basing traceroute and
ping times using a win box and trying to compare them to some other term
server, I tell them to use a conforming traceroute and ping to compare
apples and apples. Remember the latency issue someone brought up with Pm 2
pings versus pm 3 pings. They were comparing a 32 byte win ping packet to
a 64 byte unix ping packet.

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