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Subject: Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporting
To: ionut@cs.columbia.edu (Ion Badulescu)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:11:55 +0000 (GMT)
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> > Wrong. man ping. ping -f doesn't do what you apparently think it does.
> 
> strace ping, you'll see it doing a 
> 	setsockopt(7, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDTIMEO, [1], 8) = 0
> 
> on its socket.

Read the ping manual page. Then when you understand what ping -f does 
come back and have a useful conversation.
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