Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:35:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Gisle Vanem <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Ping function
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kknd_bl AT hotmail DOT com said:
 
>> > and where you can determine the TCP port??
>>
>> The TCP port of what?
>>
>
> The TCP port where the bytes are sent to, so you can also "ping" to
> other ports, this is useful when a Personal Firewall stealths most ports
 
ping doesn't use TCP, but the ICMP protocol. To test firewalls, it's
more suitable to use telnet. Like, "telnet host 80" will try to
connect to port 80 on host. Anyway this is offtopic here. go to
comp.protocols.tcp-ip.


Gisle V.