Bug#1055978: mtr-tiny: traceroute does not stop on subnet router anycast addresses

2023-11-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Hi, What I meant with "trace" is a network dump. Like tcpdump or wireshark. What packet is coming back ? Roger. On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 03:40:25PM +0100, linux wrote: > > Hi, > > I aggree with you that it's not really a bug, anyways I thougt it could be > handled different by t

Bug#1055978: mtr-tiny: traceroute does not stop on subnet router anycast addresses

2023-11-15 Thread linux
Hi, I aggree with you that it's not really a bug, anyways I thougt it could be handled different by the program. Your proposal with the additional "end-detection" would seem to work fine for this problem, below I presented you the exact behavior in my test setup and attached some network trace

Bug#1055978: mtr-tiny: traceroute does not stop on subnet router anycast addresses

2023-11-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Hi, I'd say this is an unwanted side-effect rather than a bug. I'd say the "end-detection" might also consider three times the same host responding to be considerd as "the end". Originally the TTL, that is now "hop counter" was the "number of seconds in the network". Thus if there was a queu

Bug#1055978: mtr-tiny: traceroute does not stop on subnet router anycast addresses

2023-11-15 Thread Roland Christanell
Package: mtr-tiny Version: 0.94-1+deb11u1 Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 X-Debbugs-Cc: li...@christanell.info Dear Maintainer, When I'm trying to use mtr to an 'subnet router anycast address' which terminates on a linux router, the router answers with the IPv6 address configured on it's interface