After installing Suse 9.3, I discovered traceroute does not work as expected. If a traceroute is performed, it displays the router, but all sites beyond this show asterisks. It is not system related as 9.3 was installed on a second system and traceroute behaves the same way on the second system.

One machine is dual-boot with Windows XP, traceroute (tracert) under Windows works perfectly, so it is not a router issue.

Is this something that can be corrected? With all prior versions of SuSE that I have used (8.1, 8.2, 9.0, and 9.1), traceroute worked perfectly.

Have you tried it under the superuser? (su)

When I installed 9.3, my default permissions on traceroute were 755.

From the command line, do:
ls -l /usr/sbin/traceroute

if you see this:
rwxr-xr-x, your permissions are the same, and user should be able to run traceroute.

if your permissions are different, as in rwx------, user doesn't have permission to use traceroute.

Su to root,
chmod 755 /usr/sbin/traceroute
exit

then try traceroute again as user.

I am now using SuSE 10.0 and am still having traceroute problems.

The permissions for traceroute (in root) show:

-rwxr-xr-x

As root, the traceroute command works perfectly, however a traceroute does not get past the router (Linksys). It shows the router as hop 1, and asterisks beyond that.

Is there a hidden switch somewhere that will get it past the router? In other distros, -I (ICMP packets) will work, however in the version of traceroute included with the SuSE distribution, the -I switch is used for something else.