Subject: Re: install/10324: sysinst requires router to answer to ping
To: None <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/11/2000 11:55:51
In message <200006111552.PAA19667@orchard.arlington.ma.us>, Bill Sommerfeld wri
tes:
>> >I don't think [ethernet ping] belongs in the "arp" program, though...
>
>> no...? it "sounds" like the appropriate place to put it.
>
>Arp isn't just for ethernet/802.x networks..
There are two seperate issues:
a) "ping sending ARP request" for all ARP networks.
b) "ethernet CTP ping" for ethernet only
b) clearly does not belong in 'arp'. I contend that a) doesn't
either, because it would be sending packets and the arp
program doesn't do that, but I could be convinced I guess.
--jhawk