29 Oct
2002
29 Oct
'02
11:49 p.m.
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