Re: Loose source routing for remote host discovery

On Thursday 08 May 2003 21:46, R. DuFresne wrote:
> The main trouble you face is that while the tools and toys you are using

It's an all Cisco network. Source routed packets should be forwarded fine if the last known and reachable Cisco along the path is used as a hop for LSRR. I doubt that source routing has been turned off using "no ip source-route" in their configs. As for the endpoints, I don't know. They need to be discovered first ;-)

> If those maintaining them have any salt to
> their meat, I'm betting they do not, and so your packets will only make
> it so far and then return information about route/host/service not found,
> etc.

Good point. I'll keep tcpdump logging all returned packets to a file. With a bit of postprocessing, I should be able to find out where the packets got stuck.

> You can toss packets at a device, buut, if the device is not

I'll have to play nicely. Kernel panics and BSODs are not an option.

Oliver

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