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Re: [Taps] TAPS Transports and ICMP

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 16 July 2015 21:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Taps] TAPS Transports and ICMP
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On 7/16/2015 2:40 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote:
>> [Karen ] We provide information about received destination unreachable
>> > ICMPs to users via socket api.
>> > The same we do for (connected) UDP.
>> > 
>> > This we could also do for SCTP, but as said we don't do it (yet).
>
> OK. FreeBSD does this. So it is not an issue with the specification,
> but an implementation issue.

IMO, it's a hole in the specification. It should be required by the
specification.

Yes, an implementation can exceed the specification, but that's
irrelevant to the discussion here, IMO.

Joe

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