Bug 366159

Summary:	net-analyzer/hping: Patch to make hping's traceroute mode increment TTL after N retries
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hank Leininger <hlein>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	EBUILD, PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://wiki.hping.org/50
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	ebuild update to apply the tr-try-per-ttl patch. Add an hping option to increment the TTL after a certain number of tries in traceroute mode.

Description Hank Leininger 2011-05-06 02:01:45 UTC

hping's traceroute mode only increments the TTL of the sent packet on successful reception of a reply.  The user has to hit a key (control-Z) to increment the TTL.  So hping will get "stuck" on a particular hop that drops low-TTL packets, rather than progressing past it like traditional traceroute.  This makes it unsuitable for automated, unattended use such as within scripts.

Here is a patch that adds a --tr-try-per-ttl option.  This ought to go upstream, but afaik hping is pretty much abandoned.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Hank Leininger 2011-05-06 02:02:35 UTC

Created attachment 272253 [details, diff]
ebuild update to apply the tr-try-per-ttl patch.

Comment 2 Hank Leininger 2011-05-06 02:04:54 UTC

Created attachment 272255 [details, diff]
Add an hping option to increment the TTL after a certain number of tries in traceroute mode.

Note that this patch was generated on a tree that already had hping-3_pre20051105-allow-when-suid.patch applied to it (see bug #366151), so line numbers may differ if that patch is not accepted.