Anyway to trace/ping to a server port?

nygenxny123 · ‎08-13-2008

Ive been looking at this and wondering if there is anyway to trace/ping to a server IP address and particular port of that

server from a router??

thx

Richard Burts · ‎08-13-2008

Richard

Since ping uses ICMP there is no way to specify a port number when using ping. So you can ping the server address but can not specify any port. With IOS traceroute it does use UDP packets so there are port numbers. Within certain limits it is possible to calculate the number of hops and to adjust the port number that traceroute starts with so that it sends a UDP with the specific port number to the server.

Note that this would be UDP port numbers. There is not any way to get TCP port numbers.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

nygenxny123 · ‎08-13-2008

great thx

nygenxny123 · ‎08-13-2008

i noticed the extended trace command in IOS

gives you the port option..is this the source or destination?

Richard Burts · ‎08-14-2008

Richard

This would be the destination port.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick