[ALUG] Re: TCP Problem *NOT* routing (was: Wierd routing/DNS problem)

Brett Parker iDunno at sommitrealweird.co.uk
Fri Oct 6 09:10:33 BST 2006


On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:46:40AM +0100, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> Do ping and traceroute use UDP?  If so it would seem that UDP is
> working OK but that TCP isn't.

Ping is ICMP, traceroute is UDP, grab tcptraceroute... if that doesn't
work then you've got a TCP problem, this is *not* routing, though, as
ICMP and UDP can traverse, this limits it to a firewall, and I'd assume
that it's your gateway device.

Thanks,
-- 
Brett Parker



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