How Well Do You Understand Traceroute

http://ccie20728.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/ciscos-traceroute-implementation/

 http://blog.ine.com/2007/12/28/understanding-traceroute/

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1831/products_tech_note09186a00800a6057.shtml

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk364/technologies_tech_note09186a00801ae32a.shtml

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080093f22.shtml

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a0080094e8a.shtml

BTW... Traceroute is a application not an protocol in itself :-)

HTH...

Deepak Arora

Evil CCIE