These two short programs demonstrate how ping functionality can be added to a program. However... it must be noted that the program has to be run as root, and in many cases doing something like popen("ping -q -c1 hostname"); would be far better. Regardless, the point is that ping is interesting functionality. $Id: README,v 1.1.0.0 2003/11/05 19:29:01 floyd Exp floyd $