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echo
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Description
The Echo Protocol is a service in the Internet Protocol Suite defined in 1983 in RFC 862 by Jon Postel. It was originally proposed as a way to test and measure an IP network.
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RFC 862
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Echo Protocol
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Echo Protocol (Wikipedia)
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