Priscilla,
Actually, I have seen an H. The other day we were testing connectivity to a
new site in Germany. The connection leaves our network via a router that's
at our site and owned by another company. It traverses this other network
and then arrives at the site in Germany at a router, again owned by this
other company, connected to the LAN we are interested in. We were testing
connectivity and when I did a ping to a server on the LAN in Germany I got
back H's as a reply. I had never seen this and looked it up it in my Exam
Cram Support book that was within easy reach on my bookshelf. It had no
mention of an H as a result for a ping. I mentioned to a colleague that this
was interesting. Had anyone ever seen this? Nobody seemed to have any
knowledge of this when getting a response from a ping. Before I could
mention this response to the company who's network we were traversing they
sent an e-mail stating that the connectivity had been established and we
should have no issues connecting. Sure enough, the next ping was successful.
I was to busy the rest of the day to pursue it further and had forgotten
about it until I saw your post. Unfortunately, I will never know what caused
that response as contacting the other company about this would be futile.
--
James Haynes
Network Architect
Cendant IT
A+,MCSE,CCNA,CCDA,CCNP,CCDP,
CQS-SNA/IP
""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message
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> As we all know, ping is really an ICMP echo. There are many possible ICMP
> replies. Now, Cisco could tell the user of the Cisco IOS ping command the
> actual reply received, but instead they output a character code. (Wouldn't
> want to make the product intuitive, now would we?) I'm trying to get more
> data on the character codes.
>
> This is not a newbie question. Don't send me the chart of ping reply
codes.
> I've already seen about 20 versions of the chart. I'm trying to figure out
> what routers really display and why there are so many versions of the
> chart. Putting together all versions of the chart (plus the A code that we
> have all seen but is not listed in Cisco documentation, as far as I can
> tell), I have developed this list:
>
> ! An ICMP echo reply was received.
> . The sending router or switch timed out while waiting for a reply.
> U A destination unreachable response was received.
> N A network unreachable response was received.
> H A host unreachable response was received.
> P A protocol unreachable response was received.
> M Fragmentation was needed and the don't fragment (DF) bit was set.
> & A time-to-live exceeded message was received.
> I The user interrupted the test.
> A The ping was administratively prohibited (blocked by an access list
> probably).
> Q A source quench response was received.
> ? An unknown packet was received.
> C A packet was received with the congestion-experienced bit set.**
>
> Questions:
>
> Has anyone ever seen N, H, or P? It seems to me that Cisco just outputs U
> if the router receives network, host, or protocol unreachable.
>
> Has anyone ever seen M? I couldn't get this to happen in my lab. Is M even
> for real or was that an error in one of the versions of the documentation?
>
> Has anyone every seen &? I couldn't get that one to happen either.
>
> How about I? That doesn't happen on my routers. Plus one version of the
> documentation said it was |, not I.
>
> And how about the mysterious C? I found out that it's related to RFC 2481,
> an experimental protocol that adds explicit congestion notification to IP.
> Maybe some internal developer asked for this. Cisco clearly favors helping
> developers troubleshoot over helping customers troubleshoot. (Sorry, but
> this ping research has made me angry at Cisco.)
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Priscilla
>
>
>
> ________________________
>
> Priscilla Oppenheimer
> http://www.priscilla.com
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