From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 9:16:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BC537BB5A for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3F044A831; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:16:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CA0540E; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:16:51 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:16:51 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: "Jason J. Horton" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about ping(8) In-Reply-To: <39046FCE.143CAFC0@intercom.com> Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jason J. Horton wrote: > left a ping running all weekend, came back Monday to get this. > > 64 bytes from 10.10.10.2: icmp_seq=60393 ttl=255 time=0.544 ms > ^C > --- 10.10.10.2 ping statistics --- > 322538 packets transmitted, 322538 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.470/0.565/30.742/0.234 ms > > Any reason the ping stopped logging at 322538 packets? 322538 - 60393 = 2^18 + 1 The signifigance of that is left up to the reader...:-) I'm sure an examination of the source will explain all. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message