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.
Created attachment 2521 [details] Slightly modified from Alexis patch (URL for that one in text)
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.
FIxed (by adding modified patch) in traceroute-1.4a5-24. Thanks for the pointers.
*** Bug 17742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***