On 26 jan 2006, at 20.09, Bob DeBolt wrote:
Main question is this, why does the 10.x.x.x address come back to
us instead
of timing out??
You only stated "the ping returns", not actually with what. :)
In case the 10.x.x.x box has a problem reaching the next hop, you
should see an ICMP DestinationUnreachable message. Most likely due to
a (temporary) routing problem, such as the network link to the remote
site having issues. I.e ISP(10.x.x.x)<-->remote.
For traceroute, it will return a TimeExceeded (in transit) message.
Unless the 10.x.x.x box is doing something seriously weird, you
should not get an ICMP EchoReply message. (It would also require the
ping traffic transmitted as cleartext...)
/H
