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  1. Bug #54925
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Comment 3 for bug 54925

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Ian Jackson (ijackson) wrote : [Bug 54925] Re: ping provides vague message `Packet filtered'

Josh writes ("[Bug 54925] Re: ping provides vague message `Packet filtered'"):
> Ping only knows that the packet was filtered, it doesn't know why and it
> is not Ping's job to figure out why the packet was filtered.

You are entirely wrong. ping has the complete ICMP unreachable
packet, with the reason code, as my tcpdump demonstrates. Please also
read the references I gave.

Ian.