I just used the cygwin installer to install ping-1.0.2-1.tar.xz but it doesn't work for limited user accounts:
$ ping google.com ping: socket: Operation not permitted 149 29930 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: duping protoent "icmp", 0xD56580 46 29976 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: protoent icmp 0x80039F64 0x1 21 29997 [main] ping 11668 dup_ent: duped protoent "icmp", 0x80039F50 21 30018 [main] ping 11668 cygwin_socket: socket (2, 3 (flags 0x0), 1) --- Process 11668 loaded C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WSHTCPIP.DLL at 73BB0000 1084 31102 [main] ping 11668 __set_errno: void __set_winsock_errno(const char*, int):235 setting errno 1 37 31139 [main] ping 11668 __set_winsock_errno: cygwin_socket:694 - winsock error 10013 -> errno 1 57 31196 [main] ping 11668 cygwin_socket: -1 = socket(2, 3 (flags 0x0), 1), errno 1 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
