Ping program?

[Hopkins, Samuel]

The ping would always be launched with root (administrator) privileges on
Windows 2000. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgainty@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:05 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Ping program?


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" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Hopkins, Samuel" <Samuel.Hopkins@marconi.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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
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