Anyone have an explination for this behavior?

The system will respond to pings of odd sizes, but not generate them. Even
loopback has the problem.

[root@scout1 gmaxwell]# uname -a
Linux scout1.martin.fl.us 2.2.14 #1 Wed Feb 9 11:35:38 EST 2000 i586 unknown
[root@scout1 gmaxwell]# rpm -q -f /bin/ping
netkit-base-0.10-29

[root@scout1 gmaxwell]# ping -s 1024 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 1024 data bytes
1032 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.3 ms
1032 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms
1032 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.2/0.2/0.3 ms
[root@scout1 gmaxwell]# ping -s 1025 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 1025 data bytes

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
[root@scout1 gmaxwell]#


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