From: Fergus Donohue (Fergus.Donohue at domain eolach.com)
Date: Tue 30 Jan 2001 - 14:53:32 GMT
Is it possible that you're missing /etc/protocols and that ping is calling
getprotobyname? I don't have access to a Linux box at the moment to try and
remove the file and see what happens.
Fergus.
John McDonnell wrote:
> something for the IP gurus out there.
> I'm currently building a cut down Linux system for use in an embedded
> device. Anytime I issue a ping, it tells me that it can't find the ICMP
> protocol. I've RTFMs and I can't seem to find anything. The kernel has
> TCP/IP support built in, I can ping the machine from another, the
> necessary files are in /proc/sys/net/ipv4, route works...
>
> any ideas?
>
> johnmc.
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