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Name: ping - Sends ICMP echo request packets

Version: not stated

Author(s): Mike Muuss, U.S. Army Research Laboratory <mike@arl.mil>
           Steve Deering (IP Multicast code)

Ftp source: ftp.CC.Berkeley.EDU:/pub/ping/

Description:

   The DARPA Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network
   hardware, connected together by gateways.  Tracking a single-point
   hardware or software failure can often be difficult.  Ping uses the ICMP
   protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP
   ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway.  ECHO_REQUEST datagrams
   (``pings'') have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a struct timeval,
   and then an arbitrary number of ``pad'' bytes used to fill out the
   packet.

   -- Quoted from the manpage in the ping distribution

Advertised architectures: not listed

Prerequisites: C compiler

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