Re: Strange behavior of ping

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Ram Viswanadha wrote:

> Hi,
> I have 164sx with Intel ether express network card.. lately ping is spitting out
> this info... can someone help me
> decipher it ? Thanks in advance
> 
> Ram
> 
> 64 bytes from 9.6.23.239: icmp_seq=0 ttl=127 time=0.9 ms
> wrong data byte #8 should be 0x8 but was 0x8d
>         c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24
> 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b

What distribution are you running?  If it's Debian, install iputils-ping
instead of netkit-ping.  If it's not, let me know and I'll send you a
patch to apply to ping to fix this...

C