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[Tom Anderson]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Peter Hansen wrote:

> Tom Anderson wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Sybren Stuvel wrote:
>>> You probably mean "really a ping, just not an ICMP echo request".
>> 
>> What's a real ping, if not an ICMP echo request? That's pretty much the 
>> definitive packet for internetwork groping as far as i know. I think that 
>> the more generic sense of ping is a later meaning (BICouldVeryWellBW).
>
> Submarines came before the 'net.  ;-)

Ah, of course!

if self.ping(host):
 	self.depth = PERISCOPE_DEPTH
 	periscope.up()
 	self.tubes["bow"].load()

:)

tom

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