[SunHELP] ping a port

[Kovalev, Ivan]

A little correction to Adam's reply: "...ping server is normally part of the
kernel's ICMP implementation" (Stevens)

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Cameron
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sent: 9/22/01 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] ping a port

Thanks for the clarification.  I wasn't sure what exactly to call the 
ICMP connection other than "port," but I thought that wasn't quite
right.

TC

Adam Kropelin wrote:

> AFAIK, there is no such thing as a port in ICMP. ICMP packets are 
> demultiplexed by IP based on the value of the protocol field in the IP

> header. The network stack is what responds to a PING (really an ICMP 
> echo request packet), not any particular application.
>
> --Adam
>


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