Re: printer problem

[Jose Nazario <jose () biocserver BIOC cwru edu>]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] m p wrote:

> traceroute works on a lower level of the TCP/IP protocol hierachie
> than the ports are.

you can trace a route with any protocol you so desire: ICMP, UDP, TCP,
ESP, GRE, whatever. (useful in determining protocol level ACLs, by the
way, and looking for 'leaks' in your firewall.) craft packet with TTL of
1, send out, expect ICMP_TTL_EXCEEDED; increase TTL, send, expect ..
lather, rinse, repeat. some protos just require a port argument, easily
supplied.

i had pointed out to me some time about this very topic a tool, named
tcptroute (thanks to darren reed). Tracer-X has yet to be finished from
what i can tell, though any decently skilled lib(nat|pcap) hacker could
finish it with some time.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/tcptroute.tgz
http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/tracerx/

hope this helps.

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