Simon Lodal writes: > I am traceroute'ing a DNAT'ed host. Surprisingly, all routers between > the DNAT'ing firewall and the host appear as the IP address I am > traceroute'ing. Is this intended? Can it be controlled in some way? (it > is not necessarily bad) > > Example: > traceroute to 217.116.235.62 (217.116.235.62), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets > 1 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 4.152 ms 0.875 ms 0.865 ms > 2 217.116.235.62 (217.116.235.62) 1.928 ms 1.272 ms 1.430 ms > 3 217.116.235.62 (217.116.235.62) 2.013 ms 2.338 ms 2.330 ms > > Line 1: DNAT'ing firewall. > Line 2: A router. > Line 3: DNAT'ed host. Is the router a small Linksys router? They do this without being behind a firewall or NAT box. -- Dick St.Peters, stpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
