From: "Geo" 

do you have a software firewall setup on your computer?

Geo.

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:44c58310$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Got Linux connected to a Netgear FVG318 VPN Firewall connected to a DSL
> modem by Westell (Model 6100).
>
> The traceroute command effectively does not work beyond my DSL modem:
>
> [randall{at}localhost ~]$ traceroute news.barkto.com
> traceroute to news.barkto.com (216.144.1.254), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
>   1  FVG318 (192.168.1.46)  24.226 ms   22.965 ms   18.288 ms
>   2  dslrouter (192.168.1.1)  24.333 ms   20.351 ms   38.084 ms
>   3  * * *
>   4  * * *
>   5  * * *
>   6  * * *
>   7  * * *
>   8  * * *
>
>   and stars continue beyond that point.
>
> I enabled ICMP in the Netgear box and also unchecked "Enable Stealth
> Mode" in the Netgear firewall.
>
> Might the DSL modem be blocking some kind of traffic?
>
> I don't believe that the Linux box's settings are causing this since if
> that was the case I would not expect to get timings for the first two
hops.
>
> Any ideas?

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