RE: barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh, ipsec

From: Scott Weeks (no email)
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 04:14:12 EDT

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    --- wrote:
    From: "Lincoln Dale" <>
    To: "'Joe Maimon'" <>

    > The standard control plane arguments dont apply
    > when the pattern holds all the way through to
    > equipment under your {remote-}control.
    :
    : it most certainly does. lets use an example
    : network of:
    : F
    : |
    :A---B---C---D---E
    : |
    : G
    :
    :
    : you are looking at ICMP/traceroute responses
    : through sending traffic to/from A & E.
    :
    :for all you know, there may be an ICMP DDoS attack

    What about something as simplistic as tcptraceroute? It won't give you path MTU info, but there're other tools that can.

    scott


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