Rajiv,

> When this draft-shen-udp-traceroute-ext was presented last week during
> the int-area meeting, there seems to be a consensus about the problem
> that the draft was solving, however, there was a minor concern about the
> solution.
> 
>       Specifically, the concern was that using last 4 bits in the
>       UDP src port# will result in varying the src port#, hence, 
>       traceroute probe may not really test the actual path (if 
>       multiple paths exist) that the application traffic may take.

The solution used for Paris traceroute (changing the checksum instead of
changing the last 4 bits of the src port) could be applicable as well.
See http://www.paris-traceroute.net/ and
http://www.imconf.net/imc-2006/papers/p15-augustin.pdf

Olivier

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