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Re: ? how cisco router handle the out-of-order ICMP echo-reply packets


From: Steve Bertrand <steve () ibctech ca>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:54:34 -0500

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


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