Re: PROBLEM: can't ping odd size packets in linux 2.2

Mike Liang (mliang@tachyon.net)
Thu, 26 Aug 1999 04:28:17 -0700


Yeah, I guess it's a RedHat 6.0 ping problem. Jeff Johnson replied to a
posting on 8/25/99 regarding a ping error. He says a newer netkit-base
would fix the problem.

http://x31.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=517035795&CONTEXT=935632293.1769799809&hitnum=1

(Thanks for the tip Steve)

Thanks all,
-Mike

Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
> >
> > |> Mike Liang wrote:
> > |> > I have a peculiar problem. I can not ping with an odd sized packet.
> > |> > e.g. ping -s 11 localhost.
> > |>
> > |> That is correct. You can't ping with odd sized packets.
> >
> > Hmm, I have no problem pinging with an odd size.
>
> Neither do I, but I remember having upgraded ping the last time this
> surfaced on Linux-kernel. Maybe I'm mis-remembering things. Sorry.
>
> Roger.
>

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