<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:54 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" target="_blank">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:36:17 +0200, Adel Qodmani said:<br><br>
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</div>Others have given some details on "how". A better question is "why".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Well, the why is the following:<br><br>I am trying to implement a new protocol that we've designed which works on top of the IP layer, so I am using ICMP messages to carry control information for the protocol.</div>
<div style>Why using ICMP, it seemed natural since our protocol is a Network-layer protocol and ICMP is a control messages protocol.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Does that make sense?<br><br></div><div style>Regards, <br>
Adel </div></div></div></div>