[bedevtalk] ping for BONE?

[pete at jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:06:51PM -0500, Alexander G. M. Smith wrote:
> 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.
I'd love to... (:-))  Anyone *have* it?

I suspect if I knew more about where to look (in Be headers) I might
find a hard coded value for icmp, but trying to do so, I got lost fast.

					-- Pete --