traceroute lacks icmp support

Roy-Magne Mo rmo at sunnmore.net
Thu Sep 21 13:30:47 UTC 2006


Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> FC5 has a replaced traceroute implementation, which unfortunately has no 
> icmp support
> ("traceroute -I":  the ability to send icmp echo packets instead of 
> udp). The corresponding bugzilla ticket is #176587 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176587> .
> 
> The icmp feature of traceroute is wide-used enough. To avoid an 
> unexpected shock of the network admins, this issue should be mentioned 
> in ReleaseNotes.

I do think this happened pre-FC5, so it's not a rawhide/FC6 issue.

-- 
Roy-Magne Mo




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