X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:10:53 -0700 From: Gary Johnson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug in ping? ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed Message-ID: <20080613171052.GA28689@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20080613053909.GE9710@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> <20080613072427.GA12653@trikaliotis.net> <20080613140759.GB12561@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20080613143603.GQ731@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080613145353.GC12744@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080613145353.GC12744@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> X-Operating-System: SunOS suncomp1 5.8 sparc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2008-06-13, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:36:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 13 10:07, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> ping does not have a maintainer currently so, unless someone wants to take > >> over maintainership, it is not likely to be changed and bug reports against > >> ping are not likely to be acted upon. > > > >I'm wondering if we need it at all. It doesn't exactly have more > >functionality than Window's on-board ping, plus, it uses RAW sockets. > >Raw socket I/O is restricted to administrative users since Windows XP. > >So Cygwin's ping can't work for non-admin users on XP and later. > >I'd rather drop it entirely from the distro. > > The only mildly nice thing about it is that it works sort of like the > UNIX version of ping. Exactly. > However, I think it's possible to get equivalent behavior > from Windows ping if you give it the right command line parameters. The feature of Cygwin's (Unix's) ping that I found particularly useful in my testing was the printing of the sequence numbers. I couldn't find a way to make the Windows version do that. Regards, Gary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/