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From: Daniel Lopes <lopsch@lopsch.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: difference between DROPped pings and non existing hosts
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:15:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426E8530.6080203@lopsch.com> (raw)

Hi,


I would like to know how ICMP distinguishes between DROPped pings and 
non existing hosts. Both times you don´t get a reply from the 
destination host but if it doesn´t reply because it doesn´t exist you 
get the correct destination unreachable message if it drops the requests 
for example with IPTables you get a timeout. And I haven´t a clue why 
this is so.


             reply	other threads:[~2005-04-26 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26 18:15 Daniel Lopes [this message]
2005-04-26 18:16 ` difference between DROPped pings and non existing hosts Tobias DiPasquale
2005-04-26 18:48   ` Daniel Lopes
2005-04-26 22:12 ` Taylor, Grant

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