Why are we getting "packetsSegmentation fault (core dumped)" message while running "traceroute" command?
Issue
- Why does
30 hops max, 65000 byte packetsSegmentation fault (core dumped)
error show while running thetraceroute
command with--mtu
option? - 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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