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Title : Increasing the payload of ICMP error messages
Author(s) : F. Gont
Filename : draft-gont-icmp-payload-00.txt
Pages : 5
Date : 2004-8-3
The original ICMP specification states that when a packet elicits an
ICMP error message, the IP header plus the next 64 bits of the
original datagram must be returned in the payload of the ICMP error
message. This imposes a constraint on the design of transport-layer
protocols, which are forced to include all the relevant information
needed to identify an instance of communication in the first 64 bits
of their protocol header. It also limits the amount of data from the
original packet available to the transport-layer when acting on the
ICMP error message. Including only the first 64 bits of the original
datagram's payload may also not be enough to demultiplex ICMP error
messages if IP is being used to tunnel some other network-layer
protocol. This document proposes to increase the amount of data of
the original datagram to be included in the payload of ICMP error
messages.
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