Bug 16281

Summary: traceroute LSRR broken
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ingo Luetkebohle <ingo>
Component: tracerouteAssignee: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
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Slightly modified from Alexis patch (URL for that one in text) none

Description Ingo Luetkebohle 2000-08-15 18:42:54 UTC 
traceroute, as shipped with 6.2 (and earlier) does not support
Loose Source Record Route (LSRR) correctly. The result is:

--
[root@bombay traceroute-1.4a5]# /usr/sbin//traceroute -g 212.4.200.114
212.15.192.2
traceroute to  (212.15.192.2), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets
traceroute: sendto: Invalid argument
 46  	  ,    =-1ote ,9
--

The last line contains unprintable characters which sometimes render
the terminal broken.

A patch for the problem is available at 
	ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/lbl-tools/
It works, except that linux/types.h has to be included
before linux/icmp.h. Look and you'll see.
Comment 1 Ingo Luetkebohle 2000-08-15 18:47:47 UTC 
Created attachment 2521 [details]
Slightly modified from Alexis patch (URL for that one in text)
Comment 2 Ingo Luetkebohle 2000-08-30 14:46:03 UTC 
A new, supposedly combined patch for some problems traceroute has was posted
on the security-audit list:
	http://box3n.gumbynet.org/~fyre/traceroute-1.4a5-misc.patch

I didn't check it. Another recommandation from the same thread was to
use traceroute-nanog instead/additionally. The stock version of that
one exhibits the same -g problem as the stock traceroute, though.
Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2000-10-04 19:20:29 UTC 
FIxed (by adding modified patch) in traceroute-1.4a5-24. Thanks for the
pointers.
Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2000-10-04 19:21:20 UTC 
*** Bug 17742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***