Re:Ping, Echo and privileges
"Don Siders [Team Indy]" <side...@att.net> wrote in message
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> "DRS" <d...@removethis.ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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> > The Indy 9.0 documentation says that TIdIcmpClient.Ping requires
> > administrator privileges on W2k and WXP. Since Ping seems to be just a
> > wrapper for an echo request is this also true for TIdEcho?
> No. Echo uses either a TCP- or UDP-based client. While the functionality
> might seem the same, the echo protocol does not rely on ICMP packets or
> require any special privileges ion Win2K or WinXP.
> hth...
Thanks, it helps a great deal. I need to test the link to the server and
ping/echo is the obvious way to do it. I'm surprised though that Ping has
been implemented thus since Echo doesn't have that restriction. Now, if I
can get some advice on my 'Dealing with FTP "hanging"' post I'll be set. :-)
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