something instead of ping.

[Asif Iqbal]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:

> Thus spake Bradley Raatz (Bradley_Raatz at health.qld.gov.au) [16/10/03 02:35]:
> > can someone tell me if there is a way to check the state of a host with
> > something like ping that will work on all ip hosts.  I am unable to use
> > ping as our routers will not allow ping to operate due to Nachi virus
> > filtering.
>
> Might I suggest you modify your ACLs to block 92-byte ICMP echo requests,
> instead of a blanket ICMP echo reqeust ACL?  That will probably save you
> further headaches in the future, and will still let you ping from a Unix
> machine.

I wonder if hping/hping2 would help. Anyone can comment on that ?

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