[ale] OT: ICMP Tunnel

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sun Jun 15 20:16:56 EDT 2003


On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:09:57PM -0600, Joseph Knapka wrote:
> Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:
> Actually, if you're going to tunnel TCP over this ICMP
> transport, the TCP layer should take care of reliability,
> should it not? Just as it does when using IP as the transport.

I believe you aer correct.  Something I had not thought of.  The
ICMP could be considered a poor transport layer for the TCP.  So
TCP would work just fine.  UDP however is a different story.


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
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