In a message of 03-13-1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote re: Ping no do
it's thing....
LL> Warp 3 red with fixpack 26 installed.  No problems with
LL> running apps like Injoy, NS/2, WebEx etc but ma ping won't do
LL> it's thing.  Everytime I try to ping a valid address, a
LL> "unknown protocol" error message is generated.  I had a spot of
LL> bother a few days ago with some files getting toasted so I
LL> suspect something related to the ping program itself was set to
LL> the bit bucket.  
Make sure you have both a "services" and "protocol" file in your
/tcpip/etc directory.
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