Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I changed the default number of packets to send to four (instead of > the previous which was to send it until the end of days).
But that was a traditional behaviour and other ping implementations behave this way. So, this creates incompatibility issue. Besides, now there's no way to force ping to send unlimited number of packets. > This is > much more useful, you never really want to send that many packets to a > host anyway. No, I use it to create low traffic over the link in order to prevent it from disconnecting on inactivity. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-inetutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-inetutils
