Traceroute was Re: (ASCEND) Bugfixes -- how long does it take?

["Paul M. Newhouse" <newhouse@rockhead.com>]

>>   traceroute through my P75 from the internet (ISDN) side returns ***
>>   (the other way it works just fine).  I'm not using NAT.  Again I told
>>   them it was of very low priority (to me).  I'd like to know how to 
>>   reject traceroutes on the P50 at the ISP. I could never figure out how 
>>   to write the filter so it would work?  Maybe that's another bug???
>>   I assumed it was just me being dumb.  It's a low priority thing to
>>   get working.
>
>Doesn't traceroute use unpredictable random UDP ports, so that traceroute
>will automatically fail most of the time if you block all but well known
>UDP ports, and fail always if you block all UDP ports?

If it does work that way (and that sounds familiar) it would explain why
I can't get a filter to work at the P50.  It makes the problem at the P75 
even more baffling.

Paul
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