A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far away, Carel Fellinger wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me where to find this ping command that offers a "-w"
>> option (or any other option to set the timeout)? Or maybe I'm just crazy
>
>ping -i <some-number>
No, that's the delay between multiple packets, not the timeout for each
packet.
Actually, it looks like "-w" isn't what I thought it was (timeout for
waiting for a response), but rather "wait time", after which ping will
exit.
I eventually found the "-w" option for ping in netkit-0.17, and it describes
the options as:
-i wait
Wait wait seconds between sending each packet. The default is to
wait for one second between each packet. This option is incom-
patible with the -f option.
-w waittime
Cause ping to exit after waittime seconds, independently of other
considerations.
So, it's not what I thought it meant, but still does what I need. :). Now,
though, I guess I'm wondering why debian/woody uses the ping from only
netkit-0.10 rather than from 0.70.. Anyone know?
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