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From: Kiran Kumar <immidi_kiran@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: ICMP Rule Problem
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 05:24:11 -0800 (PST)
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--- Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> wrote:
> Never mind that, you're not allowed to respond to
> ICMP packets with ICMP
> errors.
> 
> See RFC792 page 1.

  Wrong. You are not allowed to respond to ICMP
_errors_ with ICMP errors, what else does ping mean by
giving error messages like "Destination Host
Unreachable" ?.


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Kiran Kumar Immidi

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