fakeroute

Make your machine appears to be anywhere on the internet in a traceroute

Install Instructions

tar -xf fakeroute-0.3.tar.gz
cd fakeroute-0.3
./configure
make
make install

Usage

To use fakeroute, you must define a route file with your fake route. The file should be a newline separated list of dotted quad IP addresses with your IP address last. For example, 10.0.0.34 could have a route.conf that looks like:

216.102.187.130
165.87.161.74
4.24.4.146
4.0.1.122
198.137.241.43
198.116.142.34
63.199.8.242

...be careful not to include any leading or trailing blank newlines. Optionally, you could include any IP address last that you wish to be the destination of the remote traceroute. The above route will stop at: "adsl-63-199-8-242.carcionelaw.com" as if it were the traceroute destination:

traceroute to localhost (127.0.0.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  core4-g3-0.snfc21.pbi.net (216.102.187.130)  0.324 ms  0.247 ms  0.162 ms
 2  sfra1sr3-so-1-1-1-0.ca.us.prserv.net (165.87.161.74)  0.164 ms  0.265 ms  0.159 ms
 3  p3-0.washdc3-br2.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.146)  0.166 ms  0.219 ms  0.156 ms
 4  p5-0.vienna1-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.1.122)  0.162 ms  0.243 ms  0.170 ms
 5  wh243.eop.gov (198.137.241.43)  0.162 ms  0.255 ms  0.159 ms
 6  foundation.hq.nasa.gov (198.116.142.34)  0.168 ms  0.281 ms  0.164 ms
 7  adsl-63-199-8-242.carcionelaw.com (63.199.8.242)  0.182 ms  0.240 ms  0.156 ms

To run, simply execute fakeroute -f <route_file>. Note that fakeroute needs to bind raw sockets, so either as root or with the CAP_NET_RAW capability.

To test your configuration, just traceroute to localhost.

Bugs

Currently, fakeroute only works for UDP-based (ie: default unix) traceroute. It does not work for unix traceroute with the -I option, or windows tracert. Hopefully support for ICMP-based traceroute will come in a later version.

Copyright

Copyright © 2023, Matt Rosenfeld, Michele Guerini Rocco
All rights reserved.