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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hopkins, Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. > -- Leto II > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
