Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:23:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.8 ping.c Message-ID: <199808271623.JAA14670@apollo.backplane.com>
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:> I agree, we frequently use ping to detect when a machine has come
:> back up from a remote reboot, and needing to be root to do so would be
:> a hinderance. Moreover, from the sound of things, you can only ping
:> 100 times as root, which may not be enough (POST on a UE450 can take
:> forever :-)).
:
: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.
:
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:-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
Well, it seems to be too contentious an issue, nobody is willing to
take a longer-term view. The -c restritions were already taken out so no
further mods should be necessary. I think it's a big mistake, though,
the default should not be infinite packets.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications
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