| Lenroc 2004-01-23, 6:55 pm |
| Hello,
I just installed RedHat 9.
I was trying to do a traceroute, so I went to the terminal and typed
"traceroute <ip>", but it didn't work. As far as I can tell, I did not
have traceroute installed. So I googled around for a bit, found a
downloadable version, ran "make" and then "make install". Then, I tried
"traceroute <ip>", and it still did not work. I looked at the output from
the "make install" command, and noticed that it mentioned /usr/sbin, so I
tried "/usr/sbin/traceroute <ip>", and that worked (kinda).
So that leaves me with a few questions:
1. How do I make it so that I can just type "traceroute <ip>" instead of
"/usr/sbin/traceroute <ip>"?
2. When I run "/usr/sbin/traceroute <ip>", I don't get any results. Every
hop times out. I assume it is because my router (hop 1) swallows ICMP
packets, but I can use traceroute on Windows with no problem (except that
hop 1 times out). I tried "/usr/sbin/traceroute -f 2 <ip>", to skip hop 1,
but all the hops still time out.
3. Finally, I found a Traceroute program under RH's "Hat" menu (does it
have a better name?), in the "System Tools" directory. However, when I run
this (it is apparently a link to xmtr I am prompted for my root password.
Is there a way to not require the root password to run this program?
TIA!
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Lenroc
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