dd@ariel.unm.edu (06/13/91)
Hello folks- I am having to implement a process in an obscure way because a CISCO terminal server doesn't respond to an ICMP echo request for an alias IP address (currently it is ignored). Is there a reason for this, or is this something that might be feasible to implement (for example, you might respond as if the CISCO terminal server *itself* had been pinged)? The obvious advantage to such an implementation is that a collection of ports representing a service appears to be just any other IP-based service - that is, if you ping it, it responds. You would not be able to distinguish such a collection of terminal server ports from a *real* machine if this capability existed... Thanks! Don Doerner University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131
BILLW@mathom.cisco.com (WilliamChops Westfield) (06/13/91)
I am having to implement a process in an obscure way because a CISCO
terminal server doesn't respond to an ICMP echo request for an alias IP
address (currently it is ignored). Is there a reason for this, or is
this something that might be feasible to implement (for example, you
might respond as if the CISCO terminal server *itself* had been pinged)?
This, uh, "misfeature" seems to be corrected in the currently shipping
release (8.2(4)). Actually, it looks like it was fixed back before
release 8.1. Unfortunately, a lot of random changes like this do not
get documented in the release notes.
Bill Westfield
cisco Systems.
-------Michael A. Patton <MAP@lcs.mit.edu> (06/13/91)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 14:09:07 +0100
From: dd%ariel.unm.edu@triton.unm.edu
... because a CISCO terminal server doesn't respond to an ICMP echo
request for an alias IP address (currently it is ignored).
This was fixed AGES ago. It's at least in 8.1(25) which we've been
running over 6 months. It wasn't in 7.1(7). We didn't run anything
in between, so I can't be sure when it started working.
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