While we're on the subject...Are the three different times returned between each hop, representative of three different probes that are sent from router to router? I have always been a little confused about these times, and I'm not sure if these are three completely independent times or are they based on each other in any way (some type of average)? Is one time a better judge of the actual time it takes between hops, than another? Thanks for your responses.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:20 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: What does tracert tell us? No it won't. A device is a hop, regardless of how many interfaces it has. And the hop will be listed as the IP on the network between the previous device and it self. See the following example: C:\WINNT\system32>tracert -d condc1.itlogon.com Tracing route to condc1.itlogon.com [10.38.6.20] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 10.33.111.252 2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 10.33.4.250 3 <10 ms 10 ms <10 ms 10.63.2.2 4 70 ms 60 ms 70 ms 10.63.3.2 5 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms 10.63.3.1 6 70 ms 70 ms 70 ms 10.38.4.3 7 71 ms 70 ms 70 ms 10.38.6.20 Trace complete. None of these are the same boxes. I believe some routers and firewalls can be configured with each port as a hop, such that they would be 2 hops, but most aren't, as that can significantly impact both performance and the total distance the packets will travel. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
