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On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:38:05PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
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> Can a brothah get a ping "as fast as we can get responses back" (like
> Juniper's ping rapid) around here?

Well, you can compile a kernel without options ICMP_BANDLIM or
(I believe) set sysctl net.inet.icmp.icmplim=0 .

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