RE: icmp echo-requests?

From: Daniel R. Miessler (danielrm26@hotmail.com)
Date: 11/28/02

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    From: "Daniel R. Miessler" <danielrm26@hotmail.com>
    To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
    Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 06:29:09 -0500
    
    

    > Microsoft traceroute (tracert) uses ICMP Echo-Request packets with a
    > short TTL.

    Yes. Well, actually, it uses incrementing TTLs for each hop so that you
    get information for each node in between.

    --danielrm26