ping says unknown protocol icmp I have /etc/protocols file.

[Jeffrey D. Kowing]

Subodh Nijsure writes:
 >
 > I have 2.4.1 running on my board with ramdisk loading etc.
 >
 > However when I try to use ping it says unknown protocol icmp.
 >
 > I have searched the mailing list archive and made sure that I have correct
 > /etc/protocols, /etc/services files.

Had a similar problem recently.  Sadly, my little brain does not
exactly remember the solution, but I believe the problem was that I
did not have one of the necessary libraries on my ramdisk that allowed
ping to lookup the icmp protocol in the files you mention.

I think it was one of those libresolv* or libnss* libraries.


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Jeff Kowing
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