[HPADM] Re: Traceing a TCP/IP packet back to its source.

[James B. Byrne]

First let me thank those that took the time to respond.

Judging from most of the responses I must not have made my situation
clear. Someone, somewhere, is conducting a probe of a third party
and is using one of my IP addresses to identify his TCP/IP packets.
The administrators of this third party site have contacted me. I
have investigated and determined to the best of my ability that the
packets do not originate on our network, nor are they being forwarded
through our routers.

What I am looking for is some way for the administrators on the third
party's site to backtrack the packets to the point of origin. I know
that this is not my problem per se, but if these things actually are
coming out from somewhere under my control I want to find out about
it.

It appears that there is simply no way to do this.

Regards,
Jim
--- *** e-mail is not a secure channel ***
James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited
vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive
fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario
mailto:byr...@harte-lyne.ca Canada L8E 3C3

--
---> Please post QUESTIONS and SUMMARIES only!! <---
To subscribe/unsubscribe to this list, contact majo...@dutchworks.nl
Name: hpux-...@dutchworks.nl Owner: owner-hp...@dutchworks.nl

Archives: ftp.dutchworks.nl:/pub/digests/hpux-admin (FTP, browse only)
http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin (Web, browse & search)