From: rkresge@mail.omitthis.redrose.net (Roger Kresge)
Subject: Re: Nw3.11 and new hardware -
Date: 1998/05/01
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Reply-To: rkresge@mail.omitthis.redrose.net (Roger Kresge)
Newsgroups: fido.novell


Rich Wonneberger  wrote:

>*** Quoting Barry Block to Alan Frayer dated 04-14-98 ***
>>      "PING allows a Netware user to determine if a given 'server' is 
>> operating
>>      by attempting to open a diagnostic socket on that server."
>> 
>>      It operates at a higher level than the IP, right?
>
>I dont think so..  I would think it still needs IP as the transport..

PING uses ICMP, which is an Internet-layer protocol in the DOD model.  It's
below TCP and UDP, but is part of the same layer where IP resides.

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