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False hops #4

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Elbandi opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 0 comments
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False hops #4

Elbandi opened this issue May 30, 2023 · 0 comments

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Elbandi commented May 30, 2023

If the ICMP TTL exceed packet come from a different path (there is somewhere a triangle connection), the response TTL is different as the sent. So the hops number is calculated wrong.

Workaround: set the hops from request ttl number. (hops := req.TTL - res.TTL + 1 -> hops = req.TTL)
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