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From: BILLW@mathom.cisco.com (WilliamChops Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Ping to aliases
Message-ID: <35946@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 91 00:20:31 GMT
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    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)?

This, uh, "misfeature" seems to be corrected in the currently shipping
release (8.2(4)).  Actually, it looks like it was fixed back before
release 8.1.  Unfortunately, a lot of random changes like this do not
get documented in the release notes.

Bill Westfield
cisco Systems.
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