From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 17 22:21:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF4F151E1 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:21:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com ident=wes) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 12AS0u-0006Tm-00; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:21:13 -0700 Message-ID: <3884074F.E13FB1BB@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:25:19 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not a default number of pings? References: <01dd01bf6145$e13d6c80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message