tracing routes (traceroute)

[Jp Calderone]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:17:56PM -0500, Joe Brown wrote:
> I've written a rudimentary traceroute that works well on win32 (python 2.2)
> 
> For the little hair left on my head, I can't figure out how to get this 
> thing to work on Linux (python 2.3).  My every attempt to open an ICMP 
> socket on Linux has been ill-fated.  I'm drawing the conclusion that 
> sockets are somewhat broken in this version of python on Linux.
> 
> Anyway, this traceroute works pretty good on windows, where it's useful, 
> since window's tracert is rather slow (unless you have two nic's 
> installed into your winbox --go figure ;)

  On linux, you need root permissions to open these kinds of sockets.  I
tried your program as root, and it works :)

  Jp

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