please enlighten me!

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when using pathping the first line, listed as hop 0, shows the external
interface ip address of my router. Then hop 1 shows the internal interface
address of this same router. Then the rest of the list that follows is of
course outside my authority to know whether they are inside or outside
addreses.

1) what is hop 0? what is it displayed for? why is it the external interface
of my router and then hop 1 the internal address of my router?

now, jumping commands to the output of tracert, but still the same subject
matter:

2) I always imagined that the list of hops from the ouput of tracert
followed this pattern:

1) inside of your default gateway, 2) then outside interface of that same
router, 3) then inside interface of the next router in the path, 4) then
outside interface of that router, 5) then inside interface of the next
router in the path, 6) then the outside interface of that router, and so on?
is that wrong? Is it only the inside (or near side) interfaces of each
router that constitutes a 'hop' and are therefore displayed?

please enlighten me.
Thank you!
 
1) inside of your default gateway, 2) then outside interface of that same
router, 3) then inside interface of the next router in the path, 4) then
outside interface of that router, 5) then inside interface of the next
router in the path, 6) then the outside interface of that router, and so on?
is that wrong? Is it only the inside (or near side) interfaces of each
router that constitutes a 'hop' and are therefore displayed?
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No, you don't get both interfaces of the routers along the way,...you only
get the "receiving" interface (the one facing toward you), that is the
interface recieving the ICMP and responding. As far as your own router
situation, I don't know,....when I tracert from here is doesn't behave like
that.
 
Thanks for clearing that up for my Phillip! As far as your last statement
"when I tracert from here is doesn't behave like that." That was the first
part of my post and was with regard to pathping, not tracert. I probably was
not clear.

thanks again for the reply... if you have any further info on the pathping
question it would be greatly appreciated as well.

-djc
 
djc said:
thanks again for the reply... if you have any further info on the pathping
question it would be greatly appreciated as well.
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Sorry, I don't. I have never used it and don't know anything about pathping.
 
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