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From: craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: ICMP type #7?
Message-ID: <8712312046.AA01429@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 31 Dec 87 19:49:04 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
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Hi folks,

    A curiousity here.  Looking at one of the CSNET machines,
I discovered that out of 170,000 IP packets received, 20,000 were
ICMP messages with type code #7.  Type code #7 isn't listed in RFC-792.

    Am I remiss in my reading?  Should I not be worried about this rogue
ICMP message type which consumes over 10% of our packet processing?

Thanks,

Craig