Briefly explain how applications use Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP).

What will be an ideal response?


Several applications test basic issues at the Internet layer. These applications use the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP). TCP/IP users rarely start a program that uses ICMP. For the most part, ICMP features are called automatically by applications as needed without direct user action. There are very useful programs that run under ICMP, however, such as the ping utility.
 

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