Liberty, Networking plus is the class I am in at the Maricopa Skill Center. I love= the Govt. They are paying for my schooling and living expenses. You do h= ave to had a traumatic brain injury so I suppose it all evens out in the = end. :-)Mike(-: ----- Original Message ----- From: Liberty Young Sent: 2/6/2004 11:24:13 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: ping -f address.com On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:19, Michael Havens wrote: > I was thinking to myself last night that I should learn how to ping thi= ngs before I went to bed last night. This morning I arose at 4:45 and jum= ped onto the computer to check the email and through another list I'm on = learnedfrom the Unix Virus email I forwarded to that list about ping.=20 > I have two questions concerning ping: > 1- I leaarned trough the man pages that the 'f' switch means to flood t= heir server with ping packets. Does that baasically mean thaT nothing el= se can get in? > 2- Why, in the address portion, does one omit the 'www'? > :-)Mike(-: >=20 Pick up a book on networking 101, or if you're more daring, pick up a cert book for the Networking+ (equivalent to the A+ for basics) exam.=20 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spa= m or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blo= cked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE = with every account.=20 http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net