Traceroute reports a possible route that is taken by packets moving from some…
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Traceroute reports a possible route that is taken by packets moving from some host A to some other host B. Which of the following options represents the technique used by traceroute to identify these hosts
- A.
By progressively querying routers about the next router on the path to B using ICMP packets, starting with the first router
- B.
By requiring each router to append the address to the ICMP packet as it is forwarded to B. The list of all routers en-route to B is returned by B in an ICMP reply packet
- C.
By ensuring that an ICMP reply packet is returned to A by each router en-route to B, in the ascending order of their hop distance from A
- D.
By locally computing the shortest path from A to B
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