VirtualBox

Ticket #11871: vbox-doc-win-nat-icmp-clarification.diff

File vbox-doc-win-nat-icmp-clarification.diff, 841 bytes (added by Lukas Tribus, 11 years ago)

doc clarification patch

  • doc/manual/en_US/user_Networking.xml

     
    356356            ICMP protocol for sending/receiving messages. While ICMP support
    357357            has been improved with VirtualBox 2.1
    358358            (<computeroutput>ping</computeroutput> should now work), some
    359             other tools may not work reliably.</para>
     359            other tools may not work reliably. Please note: for Windows hosts
     360            ICMP isn't implemented in socket API, instead the ICMP API is used,
     361            which has its own bottlenecks and cannot be used as diagnostic
     362            tool. This affects all guests.</para>
    360363          </glossdef>
    361364        </glossentry>
    362365

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