David Starks-Browning wrote:

OK, good point.  As long as nothing *blocks* waiting for pings to
finish, I guess I don't care if setup pings.

That is indeed a *must*, as many router filter echo reply packets, so at least some server's reply would never be received, and moreover UDP packets may be lost with no problem (no automatic re-transmission at all).

Different problem: we need either raw sockets (bad, bad, bad) or the ICMP.dll, which is available also on Win9x if some releaseof IE is installed, AFAIR.

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