Search Again: Re: Traceroute through Airport? From: John May Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 Time: 1:10:09 pm Pings work fine from any software, but the traceroutes only work with IPNetMonitor so far (tried command line, Network Utility, DNS Expert and WhatRoute before settling on it). Maybe a firmware update is in order... traceroutes always worked through my Linksys 802.11 access point before I switched to the base station. - John >On 07/24/02 at 14:19, John May wrote: > >> It's something along these lines. It's a known issue that I managed >> to find a solution to on a web site somewhere. An ICMP traceroute >> doesn't work, but a UDP does. I don't see anywhere in the Airport >> config to enable/disable ICMP. > >AFAIK, there is no such option in the Airport config. From my experience >(I've got an Airport base station on my home network), however, the Airport >does not block all ICMP traffic. I routinely ping hosts outside of my >network as a quick and dirty way of getting the base station to dial up an >ISP connection and it works just fine (the Airport Admin utility, stupidly, >can't control the base station's modem, and Internet Connect only allows >you to control a base station if you've got an Airport card in the machine >running IC). Coincidentally, I did happen to notice a couple of days ago >that I couldn't traceroute through the base station. Wasn't a big deal at >the time, but it could be frustrating if you need it. > >> >On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 12:35 PM, John May wrote: >> > >> >>Unfortunately, this doesn't work, as the Airport doesn't pass ICMP >> >>packets. Ends up that you have to do a UDP traceroute, which I >> >>found can be done with IPNetMonitor. >> > >> >What? If the Airport did not pass ICMP, it would not work... You >> >probably have ICMP blocked somewhere in the config. > >-- > Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com > Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com > <http://www.globalhomes.com/> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- John May jmay@pointinspace.com President / Media Developer ICQ: 35902494 Point In Space Internet Solutions <http://www.pointinspace.com> Lasso 5 / MySQL / FileMaker Pro Hosting Now Available!

Messages In This Thread: Traceroute through Airport? by John May on Jul 24, 2002 at 6:32:37 am Re: Traceroute through Airport? by Men & Mice Support on Jul 24, 2002 at 9:32:07 am Re: Traceroute through Airport? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jul 24, 2002 at 9:34:43 am Re: Traceroute through Airport? by John May on Jul 24, 2002 at 10:35:59 am Re: Traceroute through Airport? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jul 24, 2002 at 10:57:48 am Re: Traceroute through Airport? by John May on Jul 24, 2002 at 11:20:16 am Re: Traceroute through Airport? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jul 24, 2002 at 12:01:37 pm Re: Traceroute through Airport? by John May on Jul 24, 2002 at 1:10:09 pm Re: Traceroute through Airport? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jul 24, 2002 at 4:38:49 pm Re: Traceroute through Airport? by John May on Jul 24, 2002 at 4:56:46 pm