[rancid] fix for cygwin/vista ping failure?

[Lee]

On 8/18/10, john heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:38:14AM -0400, Lee:
>> Now that I've got this far - how do I test it?  As far as I can tell
>> only lg.cgi uses ping & I'm not planning on using any of the
>> lookingglass stuff..
>
> set-up the lg; it uses ping to see if the router is reachable before
> trying to connect to it.

I got as far as this bit in the lg_intro man page
  The looking glass offers a web based interface to routers to users
without their needing permission to login ...
and quit reading.  There's no web interface on the machine I want to
install rancid on and I really don't want a web based interface to
routers, much less a web based interface to routers to users without
permission to login.  Is the lookingglass a required part of rancid?

Thanks,
Lee