OT: diagnosing with ping (was Re: Dejawin Lost Connection)

[Kenneth Brody]

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 -s sets packetsizes on all "ping"s that I have used.
[...]

Of course, Windows is different.  The "-s" flag is for "timestamp for
count hops", and "-l" is for "send buffer size".  (Oh, and the default
is 32 bytes on Windows.)

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