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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Request for Generic Pinger software
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Date: 19 Nov 90 03:17:31 GMT
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Jerry Saltzer at MIT was the first person do do something of this sort;
his used the MIT PCIP software as the lower layers, but I don't know if it
is included in any of the distributions.  We sell one (part of our "SNMP
Toolkit" offering for DOS PCs), you could write your own on our API.
Whether you'd be able to do it on any given OS depends on its offering an
adequate programmatic interface to ICMP; 4bsd unix lets you at the ICMP,
but I don't know if it can handle multiple simultaneous requests...

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