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To: StevenR362@aol.com
Subject: Re: Using `ping' to diagnose network connections reasonable? 
Cc: dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:44:10 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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:      You would be surprised at how many people that are using TIA,
: slirp or other slip emulators from shell accounts.  To my knowledge,
: none of these support ping and ICMP packets.

TIA does not support ICMP packets, and likely never will.  At least
that is what the sources of TIA that I have tell me :-).  All ICMP
packets are dropped.

Warner