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Re: job screening question


From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:45:26 -0700

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:16 AM, David Coulson <david () davidcoulson net>wrote:

What if they said "it would cause the generation of port-unreachable ICMP
packets to cease, and applications may hang until they timeout"? Not the
answer you're looking for, but not wrong either.


Umm, yeah, it is wrong.  The question was TCP.  TCP doesn't send ICMP
Port-Unreach, it sends RST packets.

  Scott


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