From: Muhammad Nasim (muhammad.nasim@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 11:07:41 ART
hrm....
As you said that router need atleast 1 byte packet in order to process the
packet and if it is replying the ICMP query or request for the patcket size
of 0 that means router can process the packet with size 0 .
You did not mentioned that router will not reply BUT if router not being
able to process the 0 packet size then it will not reply .
This is my understanding let me know if I am not on track :)
Thanks
On 3/16/07, Mohamed T. Kondela <mtaib@sagia.gov.sa> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> ________________________________________
> 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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