The following package has been recently added to the Cygwin distribution: *** ping-1.0-1
Ping is a utility to test IP conectivity of a remote host, sending ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST packets from the local host to a remote host. The remote host is considered alive if it replies with a ICMP_ECHO_REPLY packet. --Lino Tinoco *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.