Why are we getting "packetsSegmentation fault (core dumped)" message while running "traceroute" command?

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Issue

  • Why does 30 hops max, 65000 byte packetsSegmentation fault (core dumped) error show while running the traceroute command with --mtuoption?
  • Why running the traceroute command gives the following error?
$ traceroute --mtu 10.0.0.1
traceroute to  10.0.0.1 ( 10.0.0.1), 30 hops max, 65000 byte packetsSegmentation fault (core dumped)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • traceroute-2.0.19-5.el7.x86_64 or lower

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