RE: Ping

[Tim McCarthy <TimM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most TCP/IP implementations support the PING server directly in the
kernel code. Because it's not a user process you don't get to monkey
with it. PING is an ICMP echo request - part of the IP layer.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Harris [SMTP:spanner@ihug.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 1:10 AM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      Ping
> 
> Hey guys
> 
> does anyone know how to "turn off" PING, that is, suppress the
> response to
> a remote host when a ping request is recieved ?
> 
> It seemed to me that it would be somewhere in the remote filters stuff
> in
> Oops Navigator but I couldn't find anything really meaningful
> describing
> how to do this, or even if it's possible.
> 
> Cheers
> Evan Harris
> 
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