James Wright wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 7:48 am, Carl Hartung wrote:
I /do/ recall a thread in the last year or two here where we discovered a small but significant difference between Linux and M$ "ping" ... one being accepted and the other ignored, causing great consternation to the OP.
This may not be the case here, but forewarned is forearmed. I think /usr/sbin/mtr was the solution.
Carl
The ping issue between Windows vs Linux is the size of the ICMP packet. I believe a router (in that thread a while back) was refusing Linux pings, based on the size. As far as I know, this would only affect equipment requiring Windows based pings. A ping to a normal router should return as expected regardless of the OS.
- James W.
Yep, the only difference is the size. In general, Microsoft systems use 32 bytes as default packet size, Unix systems 64 and Netware systems 40. Usually, increasing packet size reveals router issue. You can check it using the -L option in Windows and the -s option in Linux. Jan Kalcic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org