
ICMP – let me help you get it.
Inter Control Message Protocol (ICMP): ICMP is a protocol used primarily to display alerts, errors, and general information in an IP network, it is used by network devices to update other devices (also accessed via the ping command) to report information about the communication. Something to keep in mind is that ICMP does not is not a transport protocol, as such it won’t transfer any user data from end to end. ICMP is divided in in Types, which are the specific functions the