Re: missing icmp errors for udp packets

Pekka Savola (pekkas@netcore.fi)
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:47:57 +0300 (EEST)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > If you reboot the computer, the _first_ ping/scan attempt will not return
> > icmp dest unreachable.
>
> Hmm... how fast after reboot?

Can be quite a long time. Previously, I tested it immediately after
reboot. Now I tried it about 6 minutes after I had typed 'reboot' with
success.

I believe it may be the first ICMP message to be sent after reboot..

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords




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