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Subject: Re: Socksified ping for Sun
From: "Richard L. Snow" <rich @ aoainc . com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:20:59 -0500
To: Brian Clapper <bmc @ telebase . com>, yshaikh @ nesbittburns . ca (Yasin Shaikh)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

At 06:23 PM 1/30/96 -0500, Brian Clapper wrote:
>>>>>> "Yasin" == Yasin Shaikh <yshaikh @
 nesbittburns .
 ca> writes:
>
>Yasin> Does any one know where I can locate a socksified ping for
>Yasin> Sunos/Solaris ?  This will help us monitor our router link to ISP
>Yasin> from our secure segment using the firewall which allows socksified
>Yasin> connections only .
>
>You can't SOCKSify ping, since SOCKS (version 4) only does TCP, and ping
>works with ICMP.

However if you look in the SOCKS.CSTC distribution there is a replacement
program which has similar functionality to PING, but uses TCP rather than
ICMP. Check out the site syl.dl.nec.com for more info.

-Rich
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
rich @
 aoainc .
 com


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