From: "Geo" 

"Mark.Lewis"  wrote in message
news:f09dee.2730e9{at}harborwebs.com...

> oops, forgot to add, supposedly any "protocol"... TCP/IP,
UDP, netbios,
> novell...

Excellent, so the ping I described would work and it's easy to use that
from a batch file.

Downside, unix ping has the ability to include whatever you want in the
data packet via the -p parameter, but there doesn't appear to be an NT ping
program that has this capability.

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPIPCommunicationVerificationUtilitypingping6
-5.htm

looking at that it's pretty clear the unix ping is way more functional than
the windows ping. Wonder why nobody ever did this for windows? (note to MS,
you did a half ass job writing ping)

Geo.

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