RE: Remote Access (Again)

True, each packet can take a different route.

The point was, it's not just your ISP and yourself that you need to worry
about, there's a whole list of computers belonging to different
people/agencies.

The traceroute was just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.


On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Hall, Philip wrote:
>
> 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.