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Re: The Ping explained
From: Mark F
Date: 2001 Jan 26, 8:53 AM
From: Mark F
Date: 2001 Jan 26, 8:53 AM
In a message dated 01/26/2001 7:59:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, daveweilacher@EARTHLINK.NET writes: > So I pinged. The list servers pinged back by sending my ping to the lists. > > Of the extra pings I got back, I liked "only one ping, Vasili" best. > "Locked on" wasn't bad either. "Ping" seems a good and proper response. Another correct response to your ping (ICMP Echo Request) would have been "ICMP message type 0" (Echo Reply) or "NAV-L is alive" Someone did follow with an ICMNP message type 5 (Redirect), when the topic was changed. :-) Mark