Re: tlug: Eth problem

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> Dunno what you mean by "based on" but AFAIK ICMP is a protocol
> orthogonal to UDP and TCP, it's out-of-band with respect to them.

Kinda. What I wanted to say is that it's "unproto", that is you
fire-and-forget the packet. There is no superior protocol
checking for losses.

> In other words, I believe it's possible to get an ICMP echo even
> though UDP fails.

Of course. It is certainly not BASED on UDP :-).

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