[ILUG] Traceroute giving request timeout on Fedora Core3

[Anil Kamath]

Fedora is the guest OS (VM) and windows XP is the host. right i will try
with mtr.

thnks a lot


On 2/16/06, John Reilly <jr at inconspicuous.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 18:55 +0530, Anil Kamath wrote:
> > I am unable to use traceroute on fedora core3 I am using vmware ws 4 the
> > tracert works fine on winxp sp2 but on fedora it just goes thru the
> first
> > hop and later gives a request timeout.
>
> Is that fedora inside of vmware running on the XP box?  or are both
> fedora & winxp running in VMs?
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> Anyway, keep in mind that traceroute and tracert are not exactly the
> same.  tracert send icmp echo packets whereas traceroute uses udp.
>
> You could also try mtr or xmtr on fedora which uses icmp echo.
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Anil M Kamath
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