Problems running PING, Telnet

[Wright, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: murali nagarajan [mailto:muralin at gdatech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 5:03 PM
> To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
> Subject: Problems running PING, Telnet
> We have the following difficulties:
>                                    ----------
> - PING command does not work
>   The erro message I get is   "ping: unknown protocol icmp"
>
> - Telnet program does not work which tells me that the
> service is unknown.
>    The error message I get is "telnet: tcp/telnet: unknown service"
>
> What can be the issue?

Sounds as though your system lacks /etc/services and /etc/protocols
files, so the socket opens are failing.

  -- David Wright, InfiniSwitch Corp.

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