[plug] no ping

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Sun May 23 10:31:10 WST 2004


On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:47:21AM +0800, Mark Saxon wrote:
> Their ping tool is browser based and I really don't want to be
> going to their site every time I want to ping or test a host. What
> Linux options do I have for testing a host in that case?

tcptraceroute uses purely tcp packets so can get around firewalls
that block ICMP.

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>



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