Re: This may be stupid but..

Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:

network is needed to effectively troubleshoot problems. It did lead to one awkward situation with a 16 year-old who immediately started talking about ICMP echos with varying TTL and routers sending back ICMP echo-replies. I wanted to end the interview and hire him on the spot but it seemed unfair to give this young guy the idea that job interviews are that short.

If that would be the criteria, wouldn´t the acceptable answer involve UDP packets and ICMP time exceeded? (not counting windows way of doing traceroute) Pete