Re: flowchart info for ping

2007-06-06 Thread Svend Sorensen
On 6/6/07, David Whelan wrote: what happens when you enter the ping command: the chain of processes, what they do, and how to find out if they were successful, and what goes out and what comes into the box. Because ping requires so many other processes to work, this might be a useful way to troub

Re: flowchart info for ping

2007-06-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
David Whelan wrote: Thanks very much for your excellent description Enrique. On a new installation of an old version of Debian, I have a problem reaching any Internet address and, trying to work through the problem on my own, I thought that such a high-level doc for ping would be useful in tro

Re: flowchart info for ping

2007-06-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:06:19AM -0300, David Whelan wrote: > Does anyone know where can find high-level "what happens when" > documentation for ping? I mean clear information about what exactly > happens from the moment you enter a ping command to the returned message. I would hope that the

Re: flowchart info for ping

2007-06-06 Thread David Whelan
Does anyone know where can find high-level "what happens when" documentation for ping? I mean clear information about what exactly happens from the moment you enter a ping command to the returned message. I don't know any good high-level doc. Most books about TCP/IP will cover it, but