Re: udp port unreachable - what behavior ?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:19:45 +0100 (BST)


> But, on my system, this program sometimes runs 5 turns (on 2.2.1) sometimes
> less, sometimes even 0 (ie no ICMP reply). Try it very quickly.

That sounds expected. It takes a finite time for an ICMP error reply to
return. There is also flow control on ICMP errors so that you never get
a link saturated with icmp

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