Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 16:35:06 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: dlr@netcom.com (dlr) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ping under freebsd Message-ID: <199503240035.QAA00365@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Mar 95 13:41:21 PST." <199503232141.NAA05443@netcom.netcom.com>
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>the problem I am at now is that bsd ping returns a zeroeven if the >connection isn't established. This behavior was added just after the 2.0 release: -------- revision 1.4 date: 1994/11/29 16:09:56; author: davidg; state: Exp; lines: +4 -1 In past releases of FreeBSD, I have used the exit status of "ping" to determine whether a connection to a given machine is up or not. In FreeBSD 2.0 (and therefore, I assume, BSD 4.4) the exit code of ping is always zero, even if no packets were received. I would like to propose the following change to /usr/src/sbin/ping/ping.c to restore this useful behaviour: Submitted by: Denis Fortin -------- -DG
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