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To: spork <spork@super-g.com>
Subject: Re: 2.2.X ping -l == ping -f 
Cc: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:55:13 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:47:10 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970429215140.16981A-100000@super-g.inch.com> spork writes:
: I do like the side-effect this produces; namely, joe user can't do a
: "pseudo ping-flood" by setting a huge preload.

That was the intended effect.

: 2.1.7.1 allows a big preload value, which I didn't care for...

Yuck.  I thought I had back ported it.  Are you asking for this to be
placed into the 2.1 stable branch?

Warner