Two elementary questions on LANs

[Tim]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 15:28 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> In addition, at times a better tool than a standard ping is to use a
> tool that uses SYN/ACK packets to confirm end to end connectivity.

And people tend to forget that ping is a networking tool, trying to use
it for other purposes.  e.g. If I ping the print server on my LAN, all
I'm doing it testing that there's some network connection between me and
the machine running the print server.  It doesn't actually test the
print server.

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