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        RFC 2075

        Title:      IP Echo Host Service
        Author:     C. Partridge
        Date:       January 1997
        Mailbox:    craig@bbn.com
        Pages:      5
        Characters: 12536
        Obsoletes:  None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2075.txt


This memo describes how to implement an IP echo host.  IP echo hosts
send back IP datagrams after exchanging the source and destination IP
addresses.  The effect is that datagrams sent to the echo host are
sent back to the source, as if they originated at the echo host.

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community.  This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any
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