On some routers and operating systems the amount of bytes returned in the ICMP payload is configurable.
For example on Sun Solaris
Ndd 'ip_icmp_return_data_bytes' is set to a default of 64 bytes (range 8-65520 bytes)
Cheers
Giles
-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of julien.leproust@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:56 PM
To: LEGO; Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: ICMP
LEGO a écrit :
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:33:16 +0100, julien.leproust@xxxxxxxx
> <julien.leproust@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a reminder:
>
> ICMP messages carry only the first 64 bits (eight octets) of the
> payload of the errored ip packet. i.e. just enough for the UDP header.
Ok, I didn't know. Too bad, that would have been fun :)
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Julien Leproust
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