[ros-dev] ping -t 127.0.0.1

[Jakob Eriksson]

art yerkes wrote:

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>
>Thanks for looking into it.  It's a really sticky problem since ICMP is
>really meant to be a system-level protocol, not an application protocol.
>As such, I'm not aware of firm rules regarding delivery of ICMP datagrams
>to applications, only rules regarding how they're received and dealt with
>at the system level.
>  
>

This is a known trouble with Windows programs too.
There is icmp.dll, check out: http://www.sockets.com/ms_icmp.htm