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

[Bill Vermillion]

I know you'll find it hard to believe, but on Thu, Jul 22 12:12 , Kenneth Brody
actually admitted to saying:" 

> 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.)

Considering that almost all networking in MS came from the orignal
BSD code - you could see the Regents copyrights in almost all their
networking programs - I bet they just changed to be different.
Perhaps to make it look like they had their own implementation.

And MS's ping also has a -f to set do not fragment on the ping.
That appears to be unique to MS.

Bill

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