Re: ping -c

[Charles Menzes <charles@lunarmedia.net>]

well, i'll do a ping -c 3 host, and i'll run tcpdump to see what is
happening, and i'll see over twenty echos goes out. how many retries will
ping attempt?

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Danny Sauer wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:08:42AM -0500, Charles Menzes wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I think your ping is broken, or you're not patient enough. :)  It takes a
> while...
> 
>  sauer@pyro:~ > time ping -c 3 192.168.0.15
>  PING 192.168.0.15 (192.168.0.15): 56 data bytes
>  --- 192.168.0.15 ping statistics ---
>  3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> 
>  real    0m11.998s
>  user    0m0.000s
>  sys     0m0.020s
> 
> I tried the -t and -i options, hoping to speed it up some, but it seems
> to require a time-out for each ping request sent, and it won't let me
> specify a delay of under 1 second (the default).  Firing up ethereal on
> the loopback device grabs 6 ICMP unreachables.  Oh, and just for reference:
> 
>  sauer@pyro:~ > rpm -qv `rpm -qf \`which ping\``
>  nkitb-2000.3.2-3
> 
> --Danny, "Mmmm, nested backticks..."
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