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

[Joe Acquisto]

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>>>> Bill Vermillion<fp at wjv.com> 7/22/04 5:51:32 PM >>>
>I know you'll find it hard to believe, but on Thu, Jul 22 12:12 , Kenneth Brody
>actually admitted to saying:" 
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>> 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.
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>> > 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.
>> [...]
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>> 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.

Hmm.  I always thought MS Networking was a derivative of LANMAN.

joea

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