Re: some network questions
On 13. September 2000 Moritz Schulte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some network problems/questions. I have a rtl8139 card, the
> pfinet server seems to be set correctly. (i can ping the ip address of
> my card - 192.168.0.2)
>
> 1) if i do 'ping -c 2 -f 192.168.0.2', ping says: transmitted packages
> 4; reveived packages: 2; 50% packet loss. why does ping try to
> transmit the double number of packets, which i've set with '-c'?
ping -c 2 transmits packets until two icmp replies have been received.
With the -f option ping transmits these packets as fast as possible.
And during the time the first packages travel back to you your ping
manages to send another two echo requests.
I have no answer to the other question,
Martin
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