OOPS! I believe it is the IP address that you need to ping to, not the MAC address. :(
Dean
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From: "Dean Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
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You can still do a "Ping" by going into a command prompt and typing "ping" followed by a MAC address.
David's comments still apply, I think.
Dean Kukral
PS: If you have any more questions on this subject (ping), they would be better posed on PCBUILD.
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Thanks, David, for your contribution to overcoming the darkness of my
memory, overly DOS-oriented I fear. Turns out there was indeed a "ping"
command. Apparently it's been superseded by a little shareware utility that
lets one ping a list of addresses/sites and bet a tabulation of results.
Pretty exotic, I'd guess. Thanks again. ---ed
Ed Nelson (from Chicago's southmost suburbs)
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>
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:00:26 -0800
> From: David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Testing remote address(es)
>
> You may be thinking of the ancient "finger" command, which at some
> point became such a vector for intrusions and enial-of-service attacks
> that most firewalls block it by default, and few sites see any value in
> overriding that.
>
> So it has become effectively unusable, even if some hosts do still run
> code which includes implementations of it.
>
> David Gillett
>
>
> On 22 Feb 2009 at 23:17, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Long ago, I recall there was a "command" -- like "PING" or something --
>> with which one could test whether an address hen was about to send to
>> actually existed. I think the idea was how to see whether I remembered
>> an address aright, without actually bugging an addressee or trying it to
>> see it a message bounced.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me whether such a thing still exists, and how I might use
>> it. (Just using the WWWeb has been so easy that I've forgotten all the
>> "old stuff.") ---ed
>>
>> Ed Nelson (from Chicago's southmost suburbs)
>> [log in to unmask]
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