ping -c

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

I am issueing a ping -c and trying to > the result to a regular text file.
reading the ping man page:

     -c count
             Stop after sending (and receiving) exactly count
ECHO_RESPONSE
             packets. The special case of no packet received after count
pack
             ets are sent causes termination also (the remote host or
gateway
             is unreachable).


it seems like the ping should stop after N responses, or lack of
responses. however, when i issue:
	
	ping -c 3 host

and host is unreachable, the echo requests still continue. why is this?

cjm

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