Re: ping



Tor Rustad wrote:
Sonda wrote:

how to ping ip address from c language ?

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc792.html

The inventor of ping, Mike Muuss, wrote the first ping program in day.. and
put it into public domain:

http://www.ping127001.com/pingpage/ping.html


As an alternative, here's the source code link from Mike's webpage
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/pub/ping.shar

If you want the whole story about ping, Mike's page gives the scoop:
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html

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