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Subject: Re: The Ping explained
MLFinVA@XXX.XXX
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 10:52:58 EST
In a message dated 01/26/2001 7:59:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
daveweilacher@XXX.XXX writes:
> So I pinged. The list servers pinged back by sending my ping to the lists.
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> Of the extra pings I got back, I liked "only one ping, Vasili" best.
> "Locked on" wasn't bad either. "Ping" seems a good and proper response.
Another correct response to your ping (ICMP Echo Request) would have been
"ICMP message type 0" (Echo Reply) or "NAV-L is alive"
Someone did follow with an ICMNP message type 5 (Redirect), when the topic
was changed.
:-)
Mark
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