Maybe his computer is doing more ... i.e. a portscanner that pings first? That's what I do, 'cause it's way easier to write a program that opens ports in a tight loop than to muck with ICMP from C/C++. If anybody knows an easy/portable way to muck with ICMP in C/C++ though, i'd be intrested in knowing it/seeing links. I readily accnowledge that my solution is more of a cop-out because I'm too lazy to write a lot of code.

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Meredith Shaebanyan