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From: dd@ariel.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Ping to aliases
Message-ID: <35941@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 91 22:16:33 GMT
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Hello folks-

I am having to implement a process in an obscure way because a CISCO
terminal server doesn't respond to an ICMP echo request for an alias IP
address (currently it is ignored).  Is there a reason for this, or is
this something that might be feasible to implement (for example, you
might respond as if the CISCO terminal server *itself* had been
pinged)?

The obvious advantage to such an implementation is that a collection of
ports representing a service appears to be just any other IP-based
service - that is, if you ping it, it responds.  You would not be able
to distinguish such a collection of terminal server ports from a *real*
machine if this capability existed...

Thanks!

Don Doerner
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, 87131