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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Cygwin's ping uses raw sockets.  Using raw sockets is only allowed
> to administrative users since Windows XP or so.  So Cygwin's ping
> is not very useful for a long time.  When you're running under UAC,
> you don't have admin privs, unless you start the shell with "run as
> administrator".
> 
> I still think we should remove ping from the distro.  In its current
> form it's not very helpful.

I wonder if it's worth trying to rework some of the ping internals to
use the ICMP dll.  If you do that, you can ping without Admin privs
(this is the way FPing does it).

--
Chuck

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