Tracert

whisper7

Hi, probably a newb question.. I recently ran the tracert command on my pc to see if there where any problems as the internet was a little slow..it displayed something I found a little odd.

1     1ms   1ms    1ms   192.168.0.1

2    11ms  9ms    8ms   10.53.**.***

Then it connects to midd-core ........ virginmedia.net

My question is what is the second private IP ? has my cable been rerouted or is it a cabinet router for virgin?

Thanks in advance and sorry if its a dumb question

onomatopoeia99

If you're using VM then it's something in VM's network, that's all that can be said for certain.  There is no rule that says things in an internal network cannot use RFC1918 addresses.

Also there's no need to obfuscate that address as it's not routeable. 

whisper7

I think my worry was someone had put something in place between me and virgin (it's a dodgy area) to hijack my broadband, probably paranoid but thought I would ask the question. Thanks for the reply.

debitcardmayhem

it could be the internal address of the modem/router , or an internal address in the vm hub(ext) who knows, but as onom… said it’s not routeable.
edit of course you could try pinging the 10…. 

whisper7

pinging gets 'request timed ou't 4 times

[Deleted User]

I'm on Virgin media and just ran a trace route to google and I get a similar answer:

traceroute to www.google.com (142.250.187.196), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

 1  10.53.38.105 (10.53.38.105)  9.230 ms  9.467 ms  15.096 ms

 2  bagu-core-2a-xe-230-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.252.244.21)  15.904 ms  16.213 ms  16.571 ms

 3  * * *

 4  tcl5-ic-4-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.252.192.246)  21.655 ms  20.761 ms  26.721 ms

 5  162-14-250-212.static.virginm.net (212.250.14.162)  27.755 ms cpc69435-hink4-2-0-cust116.8-2.cable.virginm.net (62.252.5.117)  27.015 ms 74.125.146.216 (74.125.146.216)  27.395 ms

 6  * * *

 7  172.253.65.210 (172.253.65.210)  18.637 ms 142.251.54.48 (142.251.54.48)  24.323 ms 142.251.54.30 (142.251.54.30)  24.507 ms

 8  74.125.242.82 (74.125.242.82)  23.144 ms 74.125.242.83 (74.125.242.83)  23.703 ms 142.251.54.33 (142.251.54.33)  22.389 ms

 9  216.239.59.77 (216.239.59.77)  24.626 ms lhr25s33-in-f4.1e100.net (142.250.187.196)  23.284 ms  22.622 ms

whisper7

Thanks for that, though the 10.53.38.105 seems to be your 1st hop so your in house router?  Mine is the second which I found odd, but probably isn't

CoastingHatbox

It is a router that doesn't respond to ICMP Echo Requests.

On VM I'm used to seeing either the first or second hop not send a reply.

[Deleted User]

whisper7 said:

Thanks for that, though the 10.53.38.105 seems to be your 1st hop so your in house router?  Mine is the second which I found odd, but probably isn't

I ran the trace route from my router so that why the first hop is missing - it didn't even happen!

I don't use the VM hub as a router, it is only in modem mode.

This is the same running from my PC - you can see the router hop now....