RE: ICMP Packets.

["Krammes,Jim" <Jim.Krammes () cnalife com>]

I get source quench packets from some SMTP servers.

- Jim

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Vern Paxson [mailto:vern () ee lbl gov]
                Sent:   Thursday, June 11, 1998 10:02 PM
                To:     Aleph One
                Cc:     Firewall Wizards
                Subject:        Re: ICMP Packets.

                > Source quench are only deprecated from routers. End
systems should
                > continue to send them. Read the latest router and host
requirements.

                The latest host requirements I know of is RFC 1122, and
there sending
                source quenches by hosts is a MAY, not a SHOULD.  I don't
know of any
                hosts that actually send them - do you?

                                Vern