On 28/11/2020 02:42, Jamie Le Tual wrote:
The isReachable methods were added in Java 5 so they pre-date the kernel support for non-privileged ICMP. It seems a good idea to explore this now and work through any implications for using it.:It all seems to check out (at least on my machine,) the icmp packets look good in wireshark, so the first thing I'm wondering is what the catch must be, because this seems like a simple solution and I'm wondering why it was never done like this.
-Alan.