October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1648 pages
47h 34m
English

The five Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) error message types we examined in the previous chapter communicate important information about error or problem conditions encountered during the operation of an Internet Protocol (IP) internetwork. In contrast, the other class of ICMP messages contains those messages that are informational. They are not sent in response to some issue with a regular IP datagram, but are used on their own to implement various support functions for IP. Informational messages are used for testing and diagnostic purposes, as well as for allowing devices to ...
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