There is a bug report about missing -W parameter in ping for compatibility with iputils-ping:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566845 I've pushed a patch implementing this. The most trivial way of testing it works, at least. iputils: root@sid:~# ping -V ping utility, iputils-sss20101006 root@sid:~# time ping -c 3 213.115.69.140 PING 213.115.69.140 (213.115.69.140) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 213.115.69.140 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2015ms real 0m12.019s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s root@sid:~# time ping -W 1 -c 3 213.115.69.140 PING 213.115.69.140 (213.115.69.140) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 213.115.69.140 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2015ms real 0m3.019s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s root@sid:~# old inetutils: root@sid:~# ping --version ping (GNU inetutils) 1.8 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Sergey Poznyakoff. root@sid:~# time ping -c 3 213.115.69.140 PING 213.115.69.140 (213.115.69.140): 48 data bytes --- 213.115.69.140 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss real 0m13.016s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.000s root@sid:~# new inetutils: jas@latte:~/src/inetutils/ping master$ time sudo ./ping -c 3 213.115.69.140 PING 213.115.69.140 (213.115.69.140): 48 data bytes --- 213.115.69.140 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss real 0m13.018s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.008s jas@latte:~/src/inetutils/ping master$ time sudo ./ping -W 1 -c 3 213.115.69.140 PING 213.115.69.140 (213.115.69.140): 48 data bytes --- 213.115.69.140 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss real 0m4.013s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.004s jas@latte:~/src/inetutils/ping master$ /Simon
