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by sulzar 1 view

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hi pals,
can ne body tell me what is the difference between these two messages when we ping host
1. destination host unreachable
2. Request time out
although in presence of routers and gateways
these two messages seen to be same but it has some differencs i want to know the technical reason for this

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by fnugry

"destination unreachable" message indicates that one of the routers could not find a route to the destination network.

"request time out" indicates that the destination network was reached, but the target host did not respond to the PING request.

by otl

Never posed a question but you should acknowledge answer #1 he gave a valid and computer literate answer to the question you posed. And give him all points !

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