[bedevtalk] ping for BONE?

[Alexander G. M. Smith]

pete at jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu wrote on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:43:21 -0800:
> The main catch seems to be that BONE's 'getprotobyname' just returns
> null for "icmp".  Looking at a 'strings' dump of the Be ping, it appears
> to access icmp OK, but it doesn't even mention 'getprotobyname'.

Maybe they have a hard coded a value for the icmp protocol when opening
a socket.  Check their source.

- Alex