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Re: PING packets illegal?

To: Adam Shostack <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PING packets illegal?
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:22:33 -0500
Cc: [email protected] (Bill Stewart), [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Feb 1996 13:19:01 EST." <[email protected]>
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Adam Shostack writes:
> | If you want to really abuse the protocols, 53 bytes probably fits into the
> | 64 you can send in a ping, so you could implement ATM-over-ICMP :-)
> 
> Err, you can put up to 1500 bytes into an ICMP echo request, if its
> properly implemented.

IP datagrams will store up to 64k (including headers). 1500 bytes is
just a common MTU, but with fragmentation that needn't be a limit.

.pm

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