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Date:      Fri, 06 Sep 1996 03:45:35 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: catching a ping 
Message-ID:  <199609061045.DAA06009@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Sep 1996 12:28:52 %2B0200." <199609061028.MAA20524@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> 

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>> >Is there a way to test if some host is pinging me in intervals?
>> >I tried systat -netstat and did a ping -c 1 <host> and the
>> >connection didn't show up (would port 7 be used in that case)
>> 
>>    Ping uses ICMP echo requests, so I don't know what you mean by "port 7".
>
>I meant /etc/services  echo 7/tcp

   That's the echo port for TCP, but this has nothing at all to do with 'ping'.
Ping isn't a TCP (or UDP) application...it uses the ICMP protocol and thus
doesn't involve /etc/services.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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