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

[Bill Vermillion]

Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets that will last an eternity, 
but on Thu, Jul 22 23:44 , Joe Acquisto wrote:" 

> >
> >
> >>>> 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:" 
> >
> >> 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.

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

When I say networks I always think of TCP/IP.   That's all I've
really used so I forget about all the others.  I shouldn't however,
as one Cisco router I mainted had about 30 network protocols - most
of which I'd never heard.

Change that line to 'all most all TCP/IP in MS came from the
original BSD code' which as I recall was partially done by BBN.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com