Dejawin Lost Connection

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:51:00AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> The default packet size of a ping is 56 bytes and add the 8 byte
> ICMP header and it is now 64 bytes long.
> 
> Try   ping -s 500 nnn.nnn.nnn
> And if that works try  ping -s 1400 nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
> 
> The first is a size small enough for dialups with smaller packets
> before fragmenting, and the latter is low enough to keep from
> fragmenting even if the maximum number of headers is used - 
> 8 headers at 8 bytes each.
> 
> The -s sets packetsizes on all "ping"s that I have used. You can
> always try man ping if you are not sure. Do not accidentally type
> S as that want's a source address. [ An aside. S is handy in machines
> with more than one NIC. I've also used that in a network with
> several routers by sending from the far to the local and finding
> it failed because of routing table mismatches. The default route
> on the far machine was not set to be the near machine. ]

And you might find WinMTR -- a Windoze port of Matt's Traceroute, which
is a combination of traceroute and ping, to be a useful diagnostic tool
as well -- though it's likely more useful over the Internet, than from
one machine to another.

Cheers,
-- jra
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