From: Mohamed T. Kondela (mtaib@sagia.gov.sa)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 10:59:03 ART
Nasim,
I didn't say router will not reply :) . It was my understanding that at least one byte of packet is required to process the packet at router side.
Again, it is completely new to me, that we can process a packet with 0 byte size.
Regards
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From: Muhammad Nasim [mailto:muhammad.nasim@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 4:53 PM
To: Mohamed T. Kondela
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: A PING confusion
Hello Mohamed,
I just cheked by pinging PIX inside interface from WIN XP by making the packet size 0 and the ping is successful .I am assuming that same would be true for router .
Can you please tell us from where you read that information that if the packet size is 0 then router will not reply for the echo request
On 3/16/07, Mohamed T. Kondela <mtaib@sagia.gov.sa> wrote:
Dear Group,
When I ping a from a PC to a router with 0 bytes packet size, I do get
a icmp reply and packets are processed in router side. All what I knew
in the past, I should have at least 1 byte packet size to process an
icmp query. Now is it really Windows XP bug..? May be the protocol
stack is sending the minimum (1 byte) byte with the 0 settings?
Any idea?
Mohamed T. Kondela
Senior Network Engineer
IT Dept.
Fax: 4473037 x 303
mtaib@sagia.gov.sa
Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority
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