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Subject:	Re: Ping program?
Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:05:11 -0700
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Igor makes a good point
if you have any intervening nodes (Routers) which block ICMP packets then
your ping will not be successful
Once you get the source compiled ...ping localhost first
then ping out from the known base.
-Martin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
To: "Hopkins, Samuel" <Samuel DOT Hopkins AT marconi DOT com>
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Ping program?


> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Hopkins, Samuel wrote:
>
> > I'm dying here.
>
> Sorry, can't help you with that...
>
> > Does anyone have a ping program that will compile under cygwin? I've
> > downloaded about 27 ping programs and none compile.
> > Thanks,
> > Sam
>
> IIRC, ping requires elevated privileges under WinNT/2k/XP systems...
> There was a discussion of this on this list back in January.  You should
> be able to find it in the archive by searching for "ping icmp".
> Igor
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