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Tracing a Route

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Tracing a Route You can trace the router hops necessary to reach an IP host. The traceroute facility uses the TTL (Time to Live) field in the IP header to cause routers and servers to generate specific return messages. Traceroute starts by sending a UDP datagram to the destination host with the TTL field set to 1. If a router finds a TTL value of 1 or 0, it drops the datagram and sends back an ICMP Time Exceeded message to the sender. The traceroute facility determines the address of the first hop by examining the source address field of the ICMP time-exceeded message. To identify the next hop, traceroute again sends a UDP packet, but this time with a TTL value of 2. The first router decrements the TTL field by 1 and sends the datagram to the next router. The second router sees a TTL value of 1, discards the datagram, and returns the Time Exceeded message to the source. This process continues until the TTL is incremented to a value large enough for the datagram to reach the destination host (or until the maximum TTL is reached). To determine when a datagram has reached its destination, traceroute sets the UDP destination port in the datagram to a very large value, one that the destination host is unlikely to be using. In addition, when a host receives a datagram with an unrecognized port number, it sends an ICMP Port Unreachable error to the source. This message indicates to the traceroute facility that it has reached the destination. To trace a route to a destination subnet, use the following command: traceroute host [dnf] [no-dns] [port port-num] [queries num] [size size] [ttl hops] [wait ms] To trace the route to host server1, type the following command: DWS-1008# traceroute server1 traceroute to server1.example.com (192.168.22.7), 30 hops1 engineering-1.example.com (192.168.192.206) 2 ms 1 ms 12 engineering-2.example.com (192.168.196.204) 2 In this example, server1 is four hops away. The hops are listed in order, beginning with the hop that is closest to the switch and ending with the route's destination. D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual 89

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D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual
Tracing a Route
You can trace the router hops necessary to reach an IP host.
The traceroute facility uses the TTL (Time to Live) field in the IP header to cause routers and servers
to generate specific return messages. Traceroute starts by sending a UDP datagram to the destination
host with the TTL field set to 1. If a router finds a TTL value of 1 or 0, it drops the datagram and sends
back an ICMP
Time Exceeded
message to the sender.
The traceroute facility determines the address of the first hop by examining the source address field of
the ICMP time-exceeded message.
To identify the next hop, traceroute again sends a UDP packet, but this time with a TTL value of 2. The
first router decrements the TTL field by 1 and sends the datagram to the next router. The second router
sees a TTL value of 1, discards the datagram, and returns the
Time Exceeded
message to the source.
This process continues until the TTL is incremented to a value large enough for the datagram to reach
the destination host (or until the maximum TTL is reached).
To determine when a datagram has reached its destination, traceroute sets the UDP destination port in
the datagram to a very large value, one that the destination host is unlikely to be using. In addition, when
a host receives a datagram with an unrecognized port number, it sends an ICMP
Port Unreachable
error
to the source. This message indicates to the traceroute facility that it has reached the destination.
To trace a route to a destination subnet, use the following command:
traceroute
host
[dnf] [no-dns] [port
port-num
] [queries
num
] [size
size
] [ttl
hops
] [wait
ms
]
To trace the route to host server1, type the following command:
DWS-1008#
traceroute server1
traceroute to server1.example.com (192.168.22.7),
30 hops1 engineering-1.example.com (192.168.192.206) 2 ms
1 ms 12 engineering-2.example.com (192.168.196.204) 2
In this example, server1 is four hops away. The hops are listed in order, beginning with the hop that is
closest to the switch and ending with the route’s destination.