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Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Sep 29 16:17:41 2003

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: ekgermann@cctec.com
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
	"CA Windon" <lnxguru@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:56:04 EDT."
             <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHMEPLMIAA.ekgermann@cctec.com> 
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:10:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


In message <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHMEPLMIAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>, "Eric Germann" w
rites:
>
>winders does use udp instead of icmp in their tracert program, IIRC (or at
>least they used to).  At the risk of getting my head blown off, could we say
>that was foresight :)
>
No, they use icmp.  Or at least that's what the XP box sitting next to 
me does...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb



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