Re: Minor change to "Chapter 8. Remote OS Detection"

["Luis MartinGarcia." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

On 05/07/2011 05:42 PM, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> Section 3.2.2 of RFC 1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts):
>
> "Every ICMP error message includes the Internet header and at
> least the first 8 data octets of the datagram that triggered
> the error; more than 8 octets MAY be sent; this header and data
> MUST be unchanged from the received datagram."
>
> This RFC updates and corrects some details in previous RFCs like 792
> and 793,
> and is the one implementations would follow for things like this, so just
> changing the RFC number in Ch8 would be more accurate.

Thanks, Kris, you are right.

I wonder why the IETF hasn't marked RFC 792 as updated by 1122. I
usually follow the "updated by" path, but in this case, according to RFC
792, the only documents that update it are 4884 and 950.

I attach a patch that only updates the RFC identifier.

Regards,

Luis MartinGarcia.

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