Package: inetutils-ping Severity: minor >From the description of inetutils-ping: Ping (The Packet InterNet Gropper) uses ICMP to send out echo requests, and uses the reply packets to calculate latency between the sending and the destination hosts.
>From the original Ping website, http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html: > I named it after the sound that a sonar makes, inspired by the whole > principle of echo-location. [...] > From my point of view PING is not an acronym standing for Packet > InterNet Grouper, it's a sonar analogy. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
