I am happy now I am not going mad. :)

its been a while since I have done one of these but I recall you used to also have to add the NAT specifics in the ACL so yo uwould need rules for ICMP to 205.248.197.x addresses as well.Worth a try.robert

I generally specify both echo and echo reply at the end of each access list line to be sure and check the matches or use debug and logging.robert

ok ths is interesting.on a router four hops away I get the following.ctrl-shift-6-x once or twice it drops to the first router and suspends the end one doing trace until I drop back to it.and....doing ctrl-shift-6 several times as I normally do will ...

I get the traceroute to break out and I stop on the end router I was doing the traceroute from. I am not returned back to previous routers I have hopped along until I exit each router in turn. It is strange other people get dumped back to the first r...