Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:25:19 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not a default number of pings? Message-ID: <3884074F.E13FB1BB@softweyr.com> References: <01dd01bf6145$e13d6c80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
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Leif Neland wrote:
>
> I've been hit by a "forgotten ping" again.
>
> I still do not see a reason for not having a default number of pings, instead of infinite.
> The only reason I've seen is "It's always been so".
>
> Even if a default of 4 pings is not acceptable, because windows does it that way, why not a large default then?
>
> If somebody _really_ want to ping forever, let them use -t0, and defend the rest of us from our blunders of forgetting a ping, keeping the line open infinitely.
>
> How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so?
>
> I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected.
Maybe a PING_OPTS environment variable would be more acceptable. You could
set yours to "-c 4" system wide, and this might be more palatable to
FreeBSD in general.
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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