(usagi-users 03482) Re: traceroute6 fails on 1 (2) machine

Ivan Skytte Jørgensen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ipv6.usagi.users
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:42, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > No.     Time        Source                Destination
> >     Protocol Info
> >       4 0.001516    2001:618:400:5fd6:200:24ff:fec4:cbf8
> > 2001:618:400:5fd6:20c:76ff:fe6d:bc83 ICMPv6   Time exceeded
> > (In-transit)
>
> Check the TTL of your interface, thus check 'ip link sho'. You get the
> TTL exceeded already from your own gateway.

That is the point of traceroute6. traceroute6 sends UDP packets to the 
destination with increasing TTL and gets time-exceeded from further and 
forther down the path.

Nevertheless, /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/hop_limit is 64
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