At 9:55 AM +0100 2/8/02, Christian F Buser imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >At 19:34 08.02.2002 +1100, you wrote: > >>That is, would the http check give me any better monitoring of whether >>SIMS is functioning as a mail server than just the ICMP ping? > >What is "ICMP ping"? Is it a normal "ping 111.111.111.111" or >something I did not yet hear about?
ICMP= Internet Control Message Protocol. Common 'ping' uses the ICMP 'echo' message type. There are other uses of the word 'ping' so some people choose to specify ICMP ping (as contrasted with Oracle's TNS ping, for example, which actually opens a real TCP connection) -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
