Do these break Tor's anonymity?

[Michael Holstein]

Socks v4 (which if you're using Privoxy/Tor -- you're doing Socks v4a) 
only supports TCP -- so depending on how exactly the application handles 
it, it could either drop it (still anonymous) or try and route it 
normally (not anonymous).

Socks v5 does support ICMP (and UDP), so TOR would just ignore that.

~Mike.

Anothony Georgeo wrote:
> Hello Mr. Proulx,
> 
> Yes, I ment Ping as it is ICMP taffic (I reviewed my firewall logs) not 
> TCP/IP, sorry. 
> 
> If a program is being routed through Tor and sends ping signals does 
> this break the anonymity for that program?
> 
> Thank you for you fast and informative answer; it was indeed very helpfull.
> 
> 
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