[110474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ? how cisco router handle the out-of-order ICMP echo-reply packets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Storey)
Tue Jan 6 07:39:58 2009
From: Tom Storey <tom@snnap.net>
To: Zhao Ping <pzhao.cn@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49633FCA.8090606@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:09:50 +1030
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Considering that Ciscos wait for a response before sending the next
echo-request, you should never end up in a situation where replys are
received out of order.
That is going by my knowledge of traditional IOS. Ive not yet had any
experience with IOS XE or XR to be able to quote any other experience.
Tom
On 06/01/2009, at 9:56 PM, Zhao Ping wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does someone happen to know how the Cisco IOS handle the out-of-
> order ICMP echo-reply packets? print it as success or lose?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zhao Ping
>
>
>
