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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Saturday, June 4, 2005 2:46:09 pm by PerryLorier
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 11:55:33 pm by PerryLorier Revert
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 This [ICMP] DestinationUnreachable code 0x7. This message means that the LinkLayer can tell that a host authoratively does not exist, as opposed to DestinationHostUnreachable which means that it is simply unreachable. 
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+Linux converts this to a [EHOSTDOWN] error return.  
  
 This is defined in RFC:1812 Section 5.2.7.1