[110480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ? how cisco router handle the out-of-order ICMP echo-reply packets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bertrand)
Tue Jan 6 08:54:39 2009
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:54:34 -0500
From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To: swm@emanon.com
In-Reply-To: <49636202.6030000@ibctech.ca>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Scott Morris wrote:
>> There aren't sequence numbers with ICMP. And the timeout value is
>> watched/triggered before the next ICMP is sent, so there shouldn't really be
>> any ordering problem/interpretation anyway.
>
> FYI, from RFC 792:
My apologies. I should have actually used the subject to scope what you
were saying.
Steve
