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Re: This may be stupid but..


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:14:28 +0200


Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:

network is needed to effectively troubleshoot problems. It did lead
to one awkward situation with a 16 year-old who immediately started
talking about ICMP echos with varying TTL and routers sending back
ICMP echo-replies. I wanted to end the interview and hire him on the
spot but it seemed unfair to give this young guy the idea that job
interviews are that short.

If that would be the criteria, wouldn´t the acceptable answer involve UDP packets and
ICMP time exceeded? (not counting windows way of doing traceroute)

Pete



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