Re^3: Windows Networking

gellyfish, my network is working fine. Windows does not have a file called protocols in %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\. There is one called protocol which hasn't been touched since 1999, is identical on the many systems we have here & looks like this

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This file contains the Internet protocols as defined by RFC 1700
# (Assigned Numbers). 
#
# Format:
#
# <protocol name>  <assigned number>  [aliases...]   [#<comment>]

ip       0     IP       # Internet protocol
icmp     1     ICMP     # Internet control message protocol
ggp      3     GGP      # Gateway-gateway protocol
tcp      6     TCP      # Transmission control protocol
egp      8     EGP      # Exterior gateway protocol
pup      12    PUP      # PARC universal packet protocol
udp      17    UDP      # User datagram protocol
hmp      20    HMP      # Host monitoring protocol
xns-idp  22    XNS-IDP  # Xerox NS IDP
rdp      27    RDP      # "reliable datagram" protocol
rvd      66    RVD      # MIT remote virtual disk
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Re^4: Windows Networking by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 15:21 UTC
`C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>move %windir%\system32\drivers\ +etc\protocol . C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>perl -MNet::Ping -e"my $f =Net: +:Ping->new()" Can't udp protocol by name at -e line 1 C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>move protocol %windir%\system32 +\drivers\etc\protocol C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>perl -MNet::Ping -e"my $f =Net: +:Ping->new()"` [download] Bearing in mind that the version of Net::Ping I have has udp echo rather than tcp as the default 'ping'. The network continues to work perfectly well with the protocol file removed. /J\	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: Windows Networking
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 10, 2004 at 15:21 UTC

C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>move %windir%\system32\drivers\
+etc\protocol .

C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>perl -MNet::Ping -e"my $f =Net:
+:Ping->new()"
Can't udp protocol by name at -e line 1

C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>move protocol %windir%\system32
+\drivers\etc\protocol

C:\Documents and Settings\jstowe-admin>perl -MNet::Ping -e"my $f =Net:
+:Ping->new()"
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/J\

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