Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 22:20:52 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Using `ping' to diagnose network connections reasonable? Message-ID: <3335.821254852@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 22:48:10 %2B0100." <199601092148.WAA23824@allegro.lemis.de>
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> In each of these cases, your ping check may come to an incorrect > conclusion. Pinging is nice for an approximation, but it's no > substitute for the real thing. I'm going to think about this.. I may simply offer the user a little `network tester' they can pop up and get to do a few canned operations (ping / DNS query / ftp). Interpretation of the results will be more or less left to them! :-) Jordan
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