RFC Errata
RFC 3032, "MPLS Label Stack Encoding", January 2001
Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 3443, RFC 4182, RFC 5332, RFC 3270, RFC 5129, RFC 5462, RFC 5586, RFC 7274, RFC 9017
Source of RFC: mpls (rtg)See Also: RFC 3032 w/ inline errata
Errata ID: 982
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Stephane Bortzmeyer
Date Reported: 2007-05-18
Verifier Name: Adrian Farrel
Date Verified: 2011-01-28
Section 2.3.2 says:
Since an ICMP message is never sent as a result of receiving an ICMP message,
It should say:
Since an ICMP message is never sent as a result of receiving an ICMP error message,
Notes:
As explained in RFC 1122 section 3.2.2 :
An ICMP error message MUST NOT be sent as the result of
receiving:
* an ICMP error message, or
Clearly, ICMP messages *are* sent in responce to other ICMP messages. For example, during ping processing an ICMP echo-reply message is generated as
the result of an echo-request message.