Does anyone have some good links for modern best practices? Internally we have some disagreement about whether we should allow or block ICMP and traceroute (well, UDP, since the ICMP policy would ...

Network tools are essential for solving issues with a computer network that is not performing as it should. There are quite a few things can do to aid in returning a network to its rightful state, and ...

I'm looking for some clarity on the inner workings of traceroute and ping record-route. Here's my understanding.<BR><BR>Traceroute sends UDP (ports 33434-33534) packets with a destination IP as ...

When we began this series, we discussed the ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol). This protocol is the basis for two widely used applications, ping and traceroute. In this lesson and the next, we ...