Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.8 ping.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980827083200.13846B-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980827015318.A2922@nuxi.com>
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I agree that unlimited iterations are undesirable in some environments as a default; however, I feel that the way to address that is via login.conf. Hard coding n iterations pretty much emasculates ping. I feel that the recent controversial changes should be backed out until some sort of consensus can be achieved. -Chris On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > Seems most of us are in agreement on this one. > So Matt, is this going to be backed out?? > > I'd also like to see continuious pings the default again. Why do we have > to be this non-standard for *BSD machines? When I run ping, I often > don't know how many I want to send out. I ^C when I've seen enought. I > understand your needs as an ISP, but I'm not sure these changes are best > for the general FreeBSD public. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) >
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