On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > >> Well the traceroute implementation we use around here limits how fast it > >> sends out probes, to no more than one a second. From your comment I take > >> it not everyone does this? > >True. A quick look at Linux and BSD implementations show that they don't > >rate-limit the sent packets. > > false stetement. BSD implementations do rate-limit icmp6 messages.
I should have phrased that better, perhaps. The context was: "does traceroute6 limit the rate it sends UDP (/ICMP) packets?". For both Linux and BSD, the answer is "no." By default, the packets are sent as fast as traceroute6 gets the responses back, basically. Sending ICMP6 error messages in reaction to these is different, which are indeed rate-limited. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
