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

Kevin Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Thu, 22 May 1997 12:17:06 -0700

At 05:55 PM 5/20/97 -0500, Charlie Clemmer wrote:
>
>I believe both our routers and Cisco's will respond to Microsoft's tracert
>utility.
>
>My point in responding is that the blame shouldn't fall on Livingston for
>not responding, but on Microsoft for providing poor utilities.

They do ? :)

>Does anyone know how Ascend, DEC, 3Com, etc react to this utility? I've
>also seen certain firewall that don't respond either, although I don't work
>with those products enough to say anything definitive.

Tracing route to smith.ascend.com [10.20.10.173]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.171.121
2 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms max-house.ascend.com [192.207.23.93]
3 40 ms 30 ms 30 ms internal-gw.ascend.com [192.207.23.180]
4 30 ms 30 ms 20 ms smith.ascend.com [10.20.10.173]
Trace complete.

1 is a P75,
2 is a MAX4004,
3 is a cisco,
4 is a Sun Sparc.

The same request times out when trying to cross our firewall...

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