Free Windows Help Tutorials sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org /title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=ISO 8859-1"> <META name="description" Content="Hundreds of downloadable Windows help tutorials, articles and how-to guides sponsored by inkjet printer cartridges dot org."><style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=#999999 vlink=blue link=blue> <span name = "INTRA" class="pg" style="top:0px; left:5px; width:714px; height:1010px"></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:0px; left:5px; height:1010px; width:714px' class='img'> <img src="pg0002im.png" height = "1010 width = "714" border="0"> </span> <span class='nav' style='left: 10px; top: 10px'><pre></pre></span><span name = "INTRA" style='top:51px; left:48px' class="ft4"><pre><font face='Helvetica'>Problem Solving:Internet</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:203px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'> max (in most implementations of</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:203px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>supports fewer than nine hops, which</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:203px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>combinations of Windows NT and</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:215px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Traceroute this defaults to 30 hops but</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:215px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>is a very small number for external</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:215px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>specific (namely Cisco) router BIOS in </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:227px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>can be changed by using the m flag).</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:227px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Internet probes (although it may be</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:227px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>terfaces. These problems have now all</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:239px; left:91px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Three probes (which can also be</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:239px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>perfectly suitable for internal network</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:239px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>been eliminated, except for a specific</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:251px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>modified by using the q flag) are di </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:251px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>diagnosis). Traceroute's record route</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:251px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>problem regarding TTL shrouds or</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:263px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>rected towards each TTL setting and</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:263px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>flag (or r argument) to ping remote</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:263px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>packet blocking daemons from Spam </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:275px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>the TTL address of the gateway and the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:275px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>hosts is faster. It doesn't, however, re </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:275px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>mer sites that try to remain anonymous.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:287px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>round trip time of each probe is re </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:287px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>turn response statistics for the various</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:287px; left:480px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>When a user is experiencing prob </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:299px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>turned.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:299px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>legs of the journey and it is not totally</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:299px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>lems, it is best to ask them to use Trac </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:311px; left:91px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>If the Traceroute responses come</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:311px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>reliable.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:311px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>eroute from his or her terminal rather</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:323px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>from different gateways, the address</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:323px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>from your login or terminal (if you</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:335px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>of each responding system will be re </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:337px; left:272px' class="ft1"><pre><font face='Arial'><i><b>Results</b></i></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:335px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>reside on a different part of the net </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:347px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>turned. However, if there's no re </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:347px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>work). This is because you will need to</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:359px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>sponse within a timeout interval</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:359px; left:286px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Traceroute is a diagnostic tool that</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:359px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>eliminate router problems from within</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:371px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>(normally three seconds but this can be</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:371px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>can safely be issued by your users when</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:371px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>your own network before assuming</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:383px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>modified via the w flag), an asterisk is</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:383px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>they are experiencing network prob </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:383px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>the fault lies with someone else's rout </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:395px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>displayed for that particular probe.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:395px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>lems (for example, when a particular</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:395px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>ers outside the network.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:408px; left:91px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>There are alternative ways to use</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:408px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Web page is unusually slow to down </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:408px; left:480px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Most of the common problems are</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:420px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>ICMP packets to perform a very simi </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:420px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>load). Some early implementations of</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:420px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>delays caused by an overloaded server</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:432px; left:77px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>lar function, but ICMP normally only</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:432px; left:272px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Traceroute did not work with certain</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:432px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>(too many users fighting for the same</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:444px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>aggregated port address). The ICMP</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:456px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>packets used by Traceroute are han </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:461px; left:88px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>Tracing route to www.dancingfox.com [208.197.253.130] over a maximum of 30 hops:</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:468px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>dled within the TCP/IP network code</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:479px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>1 298 ms 327 ms 330 ms ipt fo2.proxy.aol.com [205.188.198.95]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:480px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>on the Web server. Because of this, the</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:488px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>2 368 ms 438 ms 329 ms tot wj dr4r.proxy.aol.com [205.188.198.124]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:497px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>3 362 ms 328 ms 382 ms tpopd rri1.red.aol.com [205.188.128.57]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:492px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>server's OS can still process ICMP effi </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:505px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>4 310 ms 329 ms 411 ms tpopd rre1 P5 0.red.aol.com [205.188.128.1]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:504px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>ciently even if the server is overloaded</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:514px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>5 366 ms 331 ms 377 ms pos12 0 0.gw1.iad2.alter.net [205.188.128.109]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:516px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>with disk read requests or is switching</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:523px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>6 359 ms 321 ms 326 ms 133.ATM2 0.XR1.DCA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.161.194]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:532px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>7 347 ms 326 ms 382 ms 295.ATM3 0.TR1.DCA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.161.142]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:528px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>between too many server processes.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:541px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>8 369 ms 476 ms 391 ms 101.ATM6 0.TR1.SCL1.ALTER.NET [146.188.136.222]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:540px; left:480px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Many users assume that a request to</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:549px; left:96px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>9 356 ms 433 ms 382 ms 299.ATM7 0.XR1.SFO4.ALTER.NET [146.188.146.77]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:552px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>download a Web page establishes</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:558px; left:92px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>10 418 ms 434 ms 434 ms 191.ATM8 0 0.GW3.SFO1.ALTER.NET [146.188.145.229]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:567px; left:92px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>11 409 ms 416 ms 399 ms earthlink oak gw.customer.ALTER.NET [137.39.166.2]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:564px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>some sort of two way communication</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:576px; left:92px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>12 538 ms 549 ms 369 ms 208.197.248.18</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:576px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>channel with its server. Traceroute's</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:584px; left:92px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>13 464 ms 420 ms 381 ms www.dancingfox.com [208.197.253.130]</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:588px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>output reinforces that notion to many</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:602px; left:88px' class="ft2"><pre><font face='Courier'>Trace complete.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:600px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>users by listing a series of routers as it</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:612px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'> hops between the sending worksta </font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:624px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>tion and its destination. However this</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:632px; left:107px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Figure 2 Output from TRACERT WWW.DANCINGFOX.COM.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:636px; left:466px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>is not exactly the case.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:907px; left:153px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Figure 3 Cyberkit in action.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:907px; left:413px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Figure 4 Back with a different provider.</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:946px; left:52px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>File: P1815.2</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:946px; left:514px' class="ft0"><pre><font face='Arial'>Issue 101 (November 1998) page 4</font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:944px; left:260px' class="ft3"><pre><font face='Arial'><b>PC</b> <b>Network</b> <b>Advisor</b></font></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" class='nav' style='left: 357px; top: 1010px'><pre><a href='page0001.htm'><</a> Next page <a href='page0001.htm'>></a></pre></span> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1050px; left:50px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial">New!</font><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial Narrow"> </font><font size="2" face="Arial">The best sites for quality <a href="http://www.inkjet-printer-cartridges.org">inkjet printer cartridges</a> and the best sites for <a href="http://www.cheap-inkjet-cartridges.com">cheap inkjet cartridges</a></font></b></pre></span></body> <span name = "INTRA" style='top:1100px; left:300px' class="ft4"><pre><b><font color="#FF0000" size="3" face="Arial"><a href="../index.html">Windows Help Desk Home</a> </font></b></pre></span></body></html>