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From: Brandon Black photon@nol.net
Subject: ICMP support??
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 09:04:17 -0500 (CDT)



There is ICMP code in the /sys/src/ tree, but it is not compiled in by
default.  there is a ping command, and there is kernel support, if I
remember correctly.  You have to enable ICMP in the kernel config file
before you build it.

Brandon

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Digby Tarvin wrote:

> I just noticed that my Plan9 system does not respond to ICMP
> Echo requests. At least I get no response from a 'ping'.
> 
> I thought this was a pretty basic IP function. Is there
> something that needs to be enabled, or is there just
> no support for it??
> 
> Regards,
> DigbyT
> -- 
> Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
> http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~cthulhu/
> 


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