RE Traceroute question

[Francois Labreque <flabreq@ca.ibm.com>]

listbounce@securityfocus.com a écrit sur 2006-12-27 20:36:58 :

> I am running a traceroute and have two hops that report the same
> address.  Could someone please explain what would cause this?  I
> suspect that this is some type of firewall?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ralf

It can be a firewall that does PAT, or it can be certain models of higher 
end Cisco routers (75xx series) that will do that if they have 
distributed-forwarding turned on.