From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) Subject: Re: ping: unknown protocol icmp. Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 06:05:08 GMT
ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) writes:
> I'am fighting against net-2:
> I compiled tcp and nfs and anything in my .99.10 kernel and set up all
> the important tables in /conf/net (I think I did it right).
> then I do :
> ifconfig lo localhost
> route add localhost
> and start up inetd ...
> When I do a "ping localhost" all I get is "ping: unknown protocol icmp".
You need /etc/protocols. I don't know if it came with the package, but
this should get you going:
--cut here---
ip 0 IP
icmp 1 ICMP
igmp 2 IGMP
ggp 3 GGP
tcp 6 TCP
pup 12 PUP
udp 17 UDP
idp 22 IDP
raw 255 RAW
--cut again--
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