Re: ssh on ping port?

"James J. Dines" <james.dines@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3MaDf.1653$0J3.244@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Super News wrote:
>
>> Ping is part of the ICMP protocol, <snip>
>
> No, it is not. Ping is a program which sends and receives ICMP echo
> request
> and echo reply messages. You will not find the word ping anywhere in all
> of Inyernet Engineering Task Force Request For Comments 792, which is the
> official standard. See for yourself:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc792.txt

Isn't pinging UDP port and SSH a TCP port though?

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