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Decreasing or hiding Hops

talk2ram
Level 1
Level 1

Hi all

iam designing some network in my site, before that i want ask you some question about decreasing or hiding hops

my network looks like below

Internet

+

+

Core Router

+

+

Switch with VLAN

+

+

+

Router with QOS / Firewall

+

+

Customer edge Router

+

+

+

Customer Router

So when the customer tracing he need to cross all the places like

customer router---customer edge router--firewall--internerouter--internet

How can i make the connection to custome

and hide all the routes . he should be able to visual only internet router only

how can i achive this

advice will be great

ram

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pkhatri
Level 11
Level 11

Hi Ram,

One option is to create ACLs on your routers that block ICMP time-exceed messages with a local router-address. That way, only asterisks (*) will appear for your internal routers when the customer does a traceroute. Note that outbound ACLs do not affect packets generated by your router so you will have to be careful about where you place the ACLs.

Hope that helps - pls rate the post if it does.

Paresh

Hi

thanks, but i dont see the reply will do a job

if the * comes

customer feel that packet Loss

so iam exploring methods

ram

If that is what you want, you will need to configure tunnels or run MPLS within your network so that the TTL of the packets is not decremented along your internal routers.

Paresh

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