On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Jari Arkko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> > gue since it's optional, if you don't have it, then
> >    don't include it in the reply.
>
> That was the argument I was making.
>
> > So to use traceroute(since the source is
> >    certainly different, and also the port number is different), even it
> >    returns a nexthop in this case, it could be a totally misleading
> >    information.
> True. It would be correct for the traceroute, though, but it wouldn't
> necessarily match what is happening with payload packets.


Sure - but that argument applies for all the information that  traceroute
returns.

I think the fix for that is elsewhere, where one can use the
application-specific information with a modified traceroute.  The
difficulty,
of course, is knowing when to terminate the traceroute at the destination
without messing up the application.

Alia
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