tracepath reports incorrect values for the return hop count in RHEL6.
Issue
tracepathseems to be reporting incorrect values for the return hop count. This can be easily seen by tryingtracepathagainst localhost:
# tracepath 127.0.0.1
1: localhost (127.0.0.1) 0.079ms pmtu 16436
1: localhost (127.0.0.1) 0.092ms reached
1: localhost (127.0.0.1) 0.019ms reached
Resume: pmtu 16436 hops 1 back 64
- As seen above
backvalue is indicated as 64, but it should be 1 same as thehopsvalue.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprice Linux (RHEL) 6.
- Iputils packages.
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