Sending an IP packet

Adel Qodmani mpcadel at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 10:15:35 EST 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:54 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:36:17 +0200, Adel Qodmani said:
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> Others have given some details on "how".  A better question is "why".
>

Well, the why is the following:

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.
Why using ICMP, it seemed natural since our protocol is a Network-layer
protocol and ICMP is a control messages protocol.

Does that make sense?

Regards,
Adel
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