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> On Jan 21, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:37:26 -0800, Chandrakant Tiwari wrote:
>=20
>> in the program below i want it to make it work  the same way as =
TRACERT=20
>> command.
>=20
> As an observation, you're re-inventing a wheel that already works=20
> perfectly well, in that any failings of tracert tend to be more down =
to=20
> the way routers are configured to handle icmp than the tracert=20
> application itself. Unless you're doing this purely as an exercise in=20=

> socket programming with python, it might be better to find a new =
problem=20
> to solve.
>=20
> --=20
> Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com
> --=20
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

I=E2=80=99d further add that as a security measure these days, many =
(soon to be most) hosts are configured to throw icmp packets away =
without acknowledging them in any way.

Bill=