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Internet Protocol (IP) does not provide any facilities for reporting routing or delivery errors
Reports error and control conditions on behalf of IP (informed discard)
Does not make IP a reliable protocol
No sequencing or retransmissions
Messages sent unreliably as IP datagrams |
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Sends Echo message and receives Echo Reply
Displays statistics |
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Sends Echo messages with successively higher TTL field values
Determines the set of routers between a source and a destination |
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Sends a series of Echo messages to each hop
Determines link latency and packet loss |
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MTU
(Maximum Transimssion Unit) |
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| a link layer restriction on the maximum number of bytes of data in a single transmission |
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When a routing or deliver error occurs
Datagram discarded
Reports error to sending host |
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