Craig Berry wrote in response to Brad Hughes:
!The Net::Ping folks explicitly chose the echo port because it does
!not require privs and they wanted a ping facility that could be run
!from any Perl script.
For what it is worth: I know that Mac OS "classic" (Mac OS 7.*, 8.*, and
9.*) never
seemed to have a tcp/ip stack that had implemented ICMP packets hence
they could never get any ping like testing done on that platform.
I do not know if the situation changed with the *BSD/NeXT derived Mac OS
X.*
tcp/ip stacks.
Peter Prymmer
