On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 03:43, Dave Clements <huperekch...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hey Ben,
>
> thanks for replying (both to this and in the 0.6.12 ann), I've been 
> attempting to make a pure Node traceroute with dgram and node_pcap but I'm 
> pretty much stuck at the udp data buffers, I'm trying to work out how to 
> extract the icmp data from them to pull out the intermediate IP address but 
> everytime I think I'm onto something it turns out to be wrong. even just 
> using node_pcap to watch a unix traceroute seems to generate the exact same 
> udp data buffers for each hop, unless i'm looking at it wrong. Anyway, I'm in 
> deep but I think I may have to cone back to it when node_pcap supports icmp 
> decoding, looking forward to any improcements you make to dgram!
>
> Dave
>
> ps how would I set the SYN flag on a TCP packet just in case I give TCP 
> Traceroute a crack?

Node doesn't support that level of packet tinkering at the moment.
It's a lot of work to implement on all platforms and, realistically
speaking, is a feature that almost no one needs. Consider writing a
native add-on for this (or check npm, it wouldn't surprise me if one
already exists).

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