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> The IP address returned from each hop on a traceroute is from the actual device that the ICMP packet was originally sent to. Actually - the return packets ar
by gruturo 10y ago
> The IP address returned from each hop on a traceroute is from the actual device that the ICMP packet was originally sent to.
Actually - the return packets are ICMP (TTL expired in transit), but the packets you send, _by default_, are UDP.
Traceroute can indeed be instructed to use ICMP though, but it's not the default on an any OS I know.
- chris_wot 10y agoI knew someone would say this. Windows not uses ICMP by default, but there is no switch to use UDP packets instead of ICMP packets.[1] Yes, I'm well aware that UDP is the default on most Unix-based systems. 1. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940128.aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940128.aspx