or a whale

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Sorry, just had to add my two cents worth.

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Ping does refer to sonar usage and since the TCP/IP stack was 'created' or more correctly said, flogged, by the US military it refers the 'sounding' of an end point be it a sub, ship or network element.
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i love the way people exhonerate themselves from their geekiness by using the equally geeking custom </geek> tag... ( i do it myself)

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most of the time the sonar is passive i.e. it just listens. if you 'ping' you send out a sound pulse to determine the range of something by counting the time it takes for the echo to return. but it also then means everyone knows where you are. if you hear a ping, it's crap your dacks time, because it means someone else is getting a range on you, presumably to attack don't you guys read your tom clancy????

i refuse to acknowledge the geekiness of the previous paragraph.

michael

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mickmini, that you are correct, but it was assumed that - as you have pointed out - that ping requests receive a 'echo' reponse both in active sonar and TCP/IP internetworking.

The ping is heard by the poor barsted/network element who just got sounded, but as a 'echo' to the sender calculating either distance or latency.

Since the forum topic was 'ping' then it can be assumed that the 'echo' would be heard from, well, yourself.

Just defending my right to geekiness.

hi mick I have just replied see guys thats what ping is about if you use other boards dont curse me i an international man and need to get information for my register, but they use it quite often
Thanks
there is no secret funny business just had a few questions for mick thats all

never said anyone can't be geeky. i just get paid out by my wife so much as it is for being geeky. i don't need to add to my misery by admitting to it myself now do i?

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