Re: [Hurd-devel-readers] Re: Removal of ping.

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

* Roland McGrath writes:
> Can someone verify that the inetutils ping is all good?  If so, I will
> remove ping from hurd.  (I don't really know why it was ever there.)

It works, I checked it before sending this mail.  The Debian
package (inetutils-20010817) also works.  Ignore the version number,
this is a CVS version of inetutils, so is the one in the Debian
package.

ams@dryden:/$ uname -a
GNU dryden 0.2 GNUmach-1.2/Hurd-0.2 i386-AT386 unknown
ams@dryden:/$ ./ping --version
ping - GNU inetutils 1.3.2e
Copyright (C) 1998,2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU inetutils comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of GNU inetutils
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
ams@dryden:/$ ./ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms
^C--- localhost ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 33% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.000/0.000/0.000/0.000 ms
ams@dryden:/$ 

-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt