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Re: Bug in ping? ICMP Sequence Number octets are reversed


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


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