June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 18m
English
Flow records also record ICMP types and codes, displaying them as destination port numbers. I'll review ICMP types and codes first and then discuss how flow records portray them.
Many people mentally pour the different ICMP requests into one large bucket and get by on generalizations such as "ICMP is ping." Although this might be fine for average users, you're not an average user, and you need a deeper understanding of ICMP to manage a network.
An ICMP type is a general class of ICMP request, such as ping requests and ping replies. Other ICMP types include messages such as "host unreachable," routing advertisements, traceroute requests, routing redirects, and so on. Some ICMP types prompt ...
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