wierd traceroute results ???/

[Don Chorman]

I have been trying to connect to an internet gaming service (WON)
for the last two days. ( I really shouldn't be playing games..but what the
heck)
I haven't been able to connect, so I tried the gamespy network.
I couldn't connect to any network games there  either. I thought
that is might be my masquerading setup, so I hooked up my windows
machine directly to the cable modem. Still no luck.
While playing around with traceroute, I noticed a
different machine for my first hop. I did two traces, one from each
machine. Each machine was directly hooked up to the modem when
I did the traces

I'm curious as to what machine the first hop is.
Any ideas??



traceroute from Linux Machine:
[root@Machine init.d]# traceroute www.att.com
traceroute to www.att.com (192.20.3.54), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  * * *
<------no machine listed here ????
 2  bb1-fe1-0-100bt.elnsng1.mi.home.net (24.2.222.1)  17.953 ms  24.878
ms  15.827 ms
 3  c1-se6-0.dtrtmi1.home.net (24.7.73.189)  12.586 ms  14.049 ms
11.597 ms
......  rest of hops not shown.

tracert from windows machine:
Tracing route to www.att.com [192.20.3.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    15 ms    20 ms    16 ms  10.89.69.1
<-------IP of machine listed here
  2     8 ms    17 ms    34 ms  bb1-fe1-0-100bt.elnsng1.mi.home.net
[24.2.222.1]
  3    19 ms    92 ms    57 ms  c1-se6-0.dtrtmi1.home.net [24.7.73.189]