[BusyBox] traceroute -I?

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Craig,

> I admit that I'm not a C programmer, so this is a feature request to
> those with the skills & time (eek!):
> 
> It would simplify firewall rules where multiple layers of firewalls from
> differnet vendors (Cisco, single box ADSL router/firewalls) are used if
> traceroute used portless ICMP packets instead of slow UDP. (Yes I know
> that UDP is faster than TCP).
> 
> For example on my OpenBSD dual homed bastion servers, I could allow ICMP
> traceroutes from the external load balancing firewall (busybox) to the
> internal network/firewall. This would ease network testing, esp in cron
> driven scripts.
> 
> Windoze uses ICMP in its tracert (about the only clever bit of thinking
> on their part), and full Linux/BSD traceroute has the -I flag to do
> likewise, which I always set in /etc/profile as an alias.
> 
> Thoughts?

Ok. I insert to my TODO list porting slackware-current (2001 y) traceroute.


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