From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 12:24:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF0A415239 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 81492 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jan 2000 20:24:27 +0000 (GMT) To: kris@hub.freebsd.org Cc: leif@neland.dk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not a default number of pings? From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:02:18 -0800 (PST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:24:27 +0100 Message-ID: <81490.948227067@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. > > I use ping for precisely this purpose. Yes, I could change my setup, > but so could you :-) I used SunOS (and later Solaris) for many years - with ping having a default count of 1. I hated it - I almost always used the -s option to get *my* desired ping behavior (standard BSD). And it wasn't a case of being used to something else - SunOS *was* my first contact with Unix. So please don't change the default behavior of ping. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message