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[Garth Atkinson]

Hello Jeremy

I think it is because the outgoing tcp/ip packets have a return address
of 203.25.143.101 in the header and because you are not (?) using ip
masquereding, your isp will route the returning packets to
'backinthe.ussr.net' (203.56.15.20) and beyond.

Garth

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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> > traceroute chooses an interface; just what the algorithm is I
> > don't know
> > (speed, order defined, ??), but it doesn't seem to hit on
> > ppp0. However,
> > you can override it; read the man page.
> 
> I have specified ppp0 as the interface to use but still no-go.  (I
> would have thought traceroute would consult the routing table to
> decide which interface to use for a specified host.)  Interestingly,
> when I ping (eg. ping -f) ifconfig shows the counter of packets
> transmitted from the ppp0 interface to increase, so perhaps it is not
> an (outgoing) routing problem after all.  Perhaps the ISP doesn't know
> how to send packets back to me.  But why on earth not?  I can use the
> same account on the same ISP from my Windoze machine with no problems.
>  Gah, how annoying.
> 
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