[Bug 14502] Wine missing ping utility

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14502





--- Comment #2 from Erik <codeslinger at compsalot.com>  2008-07-15 18:23:29 ---
I am/was trying to troubleshoot wines' networking not the os.  the os connects
just fine thank you, it is wine's unc network that is not !!! :-(  not
functioning.

As you observed in changing the title of this bug, wine does not include a ping
utility.  Since wine by default configures itself for XP it made sense to me to
copy the files I needed from XP, (for which I do own a license for this cpu by
the way XP->Linux ).

What I found is that XP ping does not work.  I then did a bunch of research to
determine why ping was not working, it was very confusing to find examples of
people being able to use it but it not actually working for me, and ultimately
discovered that the win98 version of ping does indeed work (regardless of the
wine compatibility mode setting).

Thus this bug, which is mostly an attempt to document for others that if they
need to use ping in wine then they need to use the win98 version of it.

Of course if you want to write a ping program specifically for wine, one which
works around the "root" requirement, that would be great too.  

However, elsewhere on this site I read a discussion in which it was suggested
to simply forward the calls to the native os ping to get around the "root"
problem.  But now that I am thinking about it, that would be a really bad idea
because it would defeat the whole reason that you are using ping in the first
place, which is to test *wine's* *networking*.  I think that we can take it for
granted that the native os'es networking is functional, hard to download wine
without it.  And as you pointed out, the native os has plenty of network
troubleshooting tools.  But wine's networking on the other hand seems to be
very non-functional.  See for instance bug #14501  which is the reason I was
trying to do ping in the first place.

So, ping needs to be using wine's native networking facility or else the
results are meaningless.

I agree that unless there is other related breakage, there is no compelling
reason to fix XP Ping, just document somewhere that people need to use win98
ping and leave it at that.  



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