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- From: andy@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Andy Poling)
- Subject: Re: Ping for TCP/IP
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.143120.25887@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.3b1
- Summary: no raw readability...
- Keywords: raw ethernet, ping, read, write
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Aug18.050912.22653@crash> <714157972@macbeth.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:31:20 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <714157972@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> pusateri@duke.cs.duke.edu (Thomas Pusateri) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.050912.22653@crash> cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose) writes:
- >>Does anyone have the source for a ping command for the 3b1
- >>and Wollogong? I'm trying to connect it to a flakey IBM PC
- >
- >I messed around for a while trying to get ping to work on the 3b1 (I think
- >a lot of people have.) The ECHO REQUEST goes out, another box I have
- >returns a valid ECHO RESPONSE and it gets eaten in the ethernet software.
- >It is either being tossed in the icmp input routine or select is
- >screwing up. I will try to spend some more time on it shortly. After all,
- >we really should have a ping on this box. Many people have told me that
- >there isn't much we can do though without the source.
-
- I too spent some time on ping (a long time ago). My recollection is the
- same - I could never successfully read raw packets. I don't think the
- SOCK_RAW socket support is complete...
-
- -Andy
-
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