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Re: Ping, ICMP and TCP Ping
From: Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:13:27 +0100
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 09:22 +0100, zaka rias wrote:
hi, Im learning protocol tcp/ip and icmp, and as far as i know that Ping (software) is using ICMP protocol to transmit packets and PING is identic with ICMP.
Basically the word "PING" generally means asking "are you there". The protocol in use at the time is irrelevant. Sending a TCP packet or an ICMP packet usually achieves the desired result, ie.. you confirm that the machine is there. Although this isn't 100% effective, if you control the machines you can usually rely on a ping of some type to let you know what is going on. The fact that ICMP echo requests are the most common way to ping a machine is because they are designed for this sort of function, using another protocol is fine as long as you believe the results will be reliable enough for you purposes. ICMP echo and ping have become synonymous for most, due to the command line util named "ping" which uses ICMP echo's. If you want to play around with pinging in different protocols have a look at the hping2 utility. -- With Regards.. Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue "He who hingeth aboot, geteth hee-haw" Victor - Still Game blog: http://reboot-robot.net sites: http://www.bsrf.org.uk - http://www.security-forums.com ca: https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3
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- Ping, ICMP and TCP Ping zaka rias (Aug 26)
- Re: Ping, ICMP and TCP Ping jlmb (Aug 29)
- Re: Ping, ICMP and TCP Ping Nikolai Alexandrov (Aug 29)
- Re: Ping, ICMP and TCP Ping Barrie Dempster (Aug 29)
- Re: Ping, ICMP and TCP Ping migalo digalo (Aug 30)
- RE: Ping, ICMP and TCP Ping Burton Strauss (Aug 30)