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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
> Subject: RE: Remote Access (Again)

And you're right, sort of, too...

> Do a traceroute from the remote computer to the AS/400.  Assuming that
> the ISPs firewalls allow traceroutes, each line of the output will be
> one gateway that the packets travel through.

My understanding is that it's even worse than what tracert will show you. As I 
understand the packet delivery mechanism, each separate packet in a 
transmission can take different routes to the same target, and although tracert 
is pretty accurate, as gateways come on & offline (or get busy, or whatever) 
you can never be 100%[*] sure where your packets have been or what's happened 
to them en route.

--phil

[*] You can, of course, code something (i.e. implement the guts of tracert on 
every packet you send/recv) that will help determine the hosts that the packets 
passed through.


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