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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: catching a ping 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 08:24:09 -0700
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>Is there a way to test if some host is pinging me in intervals?
>I tried systat -netstat and did a ping -c 1 <host> and the
>connection didn't show up (would port 7 be used in that case)

   Ping uses ICMP echo requests, so I don't know what you mean by "port 7".
You could use netstat -s and look at the ICMP echo requests/replies stat.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project