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

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.


Corinna

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