On Tuesday 30 May 2006 1:52 pm, Sargon wrote:

On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 12:41, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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I know that he allows ICMP, and he can successfully ping other systems, but traceroute simply stops at the router. However he can successfully do a traceroute from a Windows box.

Windows tracert differs from *nix traceroute.

Windows uses ICMP packets. Unix variants use a UDP packet with a port set to a high number (typically 33435).

Check to see what UDP ports are allowed in and out. Actually, the default port is UDP 33434. I had him open that port up in his router. I didn't realize that Windows traceroute uses ICMP. In any case, I'll have him take a look with ethereal. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 13:23, Jerry Feldman wrote:

Actually, the default port is UDP 33434.

Oops. Yep. Sorry about that. <mumbling about Monday mornings and not enough caffeine>

I had him open that port up in his router. I didn't realize that Windows traceroute uses ICMP. In any case, I'll have him take a look with ethereal.

Once he opens that port, things should work. But a check with Ethereal is always recommended.

Sargon wrote:

On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 12:41, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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I know that he allows ICMP, and he can successfully ping other systems, but traceroute simply stops at the router. However he can successfully do a traceroute from a Windows box.

Windows tracert differs from *nix traceroute.

Windows uses ICMP packets. Unix variants use a UDP packet with a port set to a high number (typically 33435).

Check to see what UDP ports are allowed in and out.

How does Windows use ICMP for traceroute? Traceroute depends on the error message generated when "time to live" expires. Error messages are not supposed to be generated for ICMP packets.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-05-30 at 14:30 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 2:26 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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That I haven't tried - after all, I boot windows about once per quarter... I don't think I have booted Windows that often at home. I think that when I decide to put SuSE 10.1 on my desktop box, I'll just wipe out Windows.

I can't. There are certain apps, like tax software, that do not run in Linux. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEfJIetTMYHG2NR9URApCDAJoClTqq08oMzHnUXe2FdoY/HX2PRQCeNl9i pBIU31fGP8r+kFWyYdtMg5E= =8H/T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-05-30 at 15:07 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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I can't. There are certain apps, like tax software, that do not run in Linux. Actually, some tax routines do run under Crossover Office. But, I do understand.

I don't live in the states, remember ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEfJ1VtTMYHG2NR9URAgEkAJ9svZdwSCQniXVk5xCGxq6W0GavKQCfaSiR lj+Jl8R3svs1ZADlJeSh77w= =cGMl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-05-30 at 15:36 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

Have you tried testing them under cxoffice?

No, wine, and no go: it has some access databases, I think. It is really simpler to boot up windows for the time, I don't care that much. One of these years perhaps we will get tax software in linux here. Who knows! - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEfMWTtTMYHG2NR9URAqY5AJ9xu/G8OOTiXNeIkhxE7qxu321B5ACdH5pb TqqDIfQo6DidB3I5MfZlE6c= =ERaF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:36 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 3:30 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Tuesday 2006-05-30 at 15:07 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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I can't. There are certain apps, like tax software, that do not run in Linux.

Actually, some tax routines do run under Crossover Office. But, I do understand.

I don't live in the states, remember ;-) Have you tried testing them under cxoffice?

I have tested them and they -don't-work, they might install but they don't run. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998