Michael C. Toren on 28 Oct 2004 12:18:02 -0000


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Re: [tcptra-dev] Different ICMP-ReturnCodes showing in tcpdump, but not in tcptraceroute


On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:45:22AM +0200, Thomas Springer wrote:
> looking at a tcpdump, i noticed, that the icmp-codes differ 
> sometimes between icmp48 and icmp36 (standard seems to be icmp36):

[..]

> 09:38:03.656062 IP tbr1-cl1.cgcil.ip.att.net > xx.xx.192.133: icmp 
> 48: time exceeded in-transit

Yes, as Richard pointed out, "48" and "36" isn't referring to the ICMP
type -- in this case, the ICMP type was 11 ("time exceeded") and the
ICMP code was 0 ("in-transit").  tcpdump already expanded these values
to their proper nouns for you.

HTH,
-mct

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