Re: ICMP

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A lot of ICMP implementations return more IP-Header plus 8 bytes. But
the only thing you know is that they return at least IP header + 8  
bytes.

Ethereal uses what it gets...

Best regards
Michael

On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:50 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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> hi,
>   i need to know what was the RFC or protocol specification that  
> ethereal
> follows for ICMP protocol. could u please help me out.
>   i just had a traffic file which decoded by ethereal shows ICMP error
> message returning a payload which is against RFC 792
>    The payload returned by ICMP error message (destination host  
> unreachable)
> should be IP header+ 8 bytes but ethereal decodes (IP header + more  
> than 8
> bytes)
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> regards
> pradeep raju
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