Re: ICMP in 2.2.9 (was 3c575)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:46:46 +0100 (BST)

> > Yes. Just fine. You probably have a buggy ping binary.
>
> But it's a buggy ping binary on three different releases of redhat
> on four different kernels then.

Then you have a corrupt Red Hat methinks

(RH 4.2 to a 2.2.9 box)

[alan@lightning]$ ping -s 1475 roadrunner
PING roadrunner (194.168.151.2): 1475 data bytes
1483 bytes from 194.168.151.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6.9 ms

(RH 5.0 to a 2.2.9 box)

[alan@pingviini]$ ping -s 1475 roadrunner
PING roadrunner (194.168.151.2): 1475 data bytes
1483 bytes from 194.168.151.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6.2 msb

(RH 6.0 to a 2.2.9 box)
[alan@scoobysna]$ ping -s 1475 roadrunner
PING roadrunner (194.168.151.2): 1475 data bytes

--- roadrunner ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

(egcs miscompiled ping in RH 6.0)

Alan

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