Chris Davies on 19/10/10 16:24, wrote:
Adam Hardy <adam....@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
I have a question about traceroute that might be relevant. I haven't
figured out the traceroute options because on lenny, my traceroute
doesn't complete. The last hop to mktgw1.ibllc.com doesn't show - it
just counts stars up to 30. But on windows it does complete at 23 -
where mktgw1.ibllc.com is the last hop / target. Does this betray
anything?
Traceroute on Linux and Windows platforms typically use different packet
types. IIRC, tracert uses ICMP 8 (ping) whereas traceroute uses UDP. My
flavour of traceroute accepts the -I flag to force ICMP 8.
My version of traceroute also has the --mtu option, which tries to
determine the MTU for the route being traced. It looks perhaps like the
firewall for interactivebrokers (IP 208.192.181.62) *may* be blocking too
many ICMP control message types - including the MTU/Fragment messages.
The problem is, it doesn't look good from their point of view. I have a problem
but their other 150,000 customers don't. I have a manually configured gateway,
iptables firewall and all - their other 150,000 customers use mostly windows,
although there are an unknown number of linux users out there - it's a java app.
I have so far only a couple of things to go on - communication with their server
shows inexplicable MTU behaviour, and there is a weak link on the British
Telecom part of the traceroute.
All tests on my LAN show that I am running normally though. I've tested my mtu
size, my firewall, my DHCP, my DNS (now using OpenDNS).
Any ideas where to go from here?
Thanks
Adam
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