Re: Any Ping Issue in Debian
saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com> writes:
> I am using debian3.0 for sometimes and now only I
> noticed that some issue in ping.
>
> My IP is 192.168.11.20 and its accessible in my LAN.It
> got response if I ping 192.168.11.21(available in
> LAN).
>
> But if I ping 192.168.11.22( not available in LAN), I
> didn't get any output like " Destination Host
> Unreachable". It doesn't give any output.
That's expected behavior. There's no entity to reply to the ICMP echo
request packets that ping sends.
> If I ping 192.168.11.22 from a windows system, I got
> reply like ' Request timed out '.
>
> Both windows and debian have the same gateway.
>
> Any solution?
What exactly is the problem you want a solution for?
If you want ping to time out, read the manual page; for example, if
you're using netkit-ping, use the -c option.
Martin
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