Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754134Ab2EVRi7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2012 13:38:59 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:64944 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751671Ab2EVRi6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2012 13:38:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1337705285.3361.229.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <87r4ujno34.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <1337278363.3403.39.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <87zk90s0em.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <1337701259.3361.208.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <87mx50rz34.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> <1337705285.3361.229.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:38:57 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: tcp timestamp issues with google servers From: Vijay Subramanian To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Miklos Szeredi , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 948 Lines: 26 >> Maybe tcptraceroute[1] can help you figure this out. >> >> [1] http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/ > > > The transparent proxy can intercept TCP connections to port 80/443, and > let ICMP being NATed by the box. Just to be clear..tcptraceroute uses TCP SYN packets to trace the route instead of using ICMP packets used by vanilla traceroute precisely because of the issue you raised. The idea is that if the connection is getting terminated at a middlebox, the trace will end there. Otherwise, the trace route will end at destination (google in this case). This avoids the problems of ICMP and TCP flows being treated differently by the middlebox. Is this approach workable? Thanks, Vijay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/