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Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

Subject: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
From: adrian at creative.net.au (Adrian Chadd)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:32:12 +0800
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, John Lee wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> VPN's and MPLS control intermediate hops and IPsec and SSL do not allow the info to be seen.
> 
> Rewriting the TTL only hides the number of hop count, trace route will still show the hops the packet has transited.

No, traceroute shows the hops which returned "time to live exceeded."

This only maps to "the hops the packet has transited" if the TTL is setup
and decremented correctly.




Adrian

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