On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:01:32PM -0400, Joe Patterson wrote: > kind of the same way that a system determines what an ICMP message relates > to. For example, the format of an ICMP unreachable message, which includes > such messages as the fragmentation needed and all the network/host/port > unreachables, is:
<snip> Thank you very much for this detailed explanation, much appreciated. > Excellent documentation on all of this is in "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume > 1: The Protocols" by W. Richard Stevens. If you really want to know > everything about IP and don't care that your brain might explode, read it > cover to cover. :) Heh, I have two copies of this around, one at work and one at home. I've yet to read it all the way through, but it's at the top of the "to read" pile. Actually I know this book has been mentioned before - I commute by train a lot, is it a good book to read on the train, or best to read while I'm sat online so I can watch "live" what it describes? Thank you. -- FunkyJesus System Administration Team
