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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 19:11:05 +0200
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: bin/4218: change in ping behavior: -c now counts _received_ packets
References: <199708030800.BAA12082@hub.freebsd.org> <199708030912.CAA22377@implode.root.com>
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As David Greenman wrote:

>    Hmmm. FreeBSD 2.1.x and 2.2.x both do something a bit more complicated
> than just wait for the <n> packets to be received. ping will transmit up
> to <n> packets and wait for these to be received; it will wait for the
> first received packet for up to 10 seconds, and a variable amount of time
> (twice the maximum round trip time) if one or more have already been
> received.

Ah.  I've only looked at the logic behind `nreceived', but missed the
alarm handler.

So the question arises: why has the alarm behaviour been changed at
all?  (And why is/was it not documented?)

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cheers, J"org

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