> On Jan 21, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:37:26 -0800, Chandrakant Tiwari wrote: > >> in the program below i want it to make it work the same way as TRACERT >> command. > > As an observation, you're re-inventing a wheel that already works > perfectly well, in that any failings of tracert tend to be more down to > the way routers are configured to handle icmp than the tracert > application itself. Unless you're doing this purely as an exercise in > socket programming with python, it might be better to find a new problem > to solve. > > -- > Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
I’d 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
