On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Matt Greer wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2001 02:58 pm, you wrote: > > > When I ping the linux from windows I get an ok message (100% ok, 0% > > dropped) but when I ping from linux it keeps on pinging forever. Does > > this mean that only one of my machines is misconfigured, and if this is > > the case, wich one? > > That's correct. Unix ping will ping forever unless you stop it. Hit CTRL-C to > stop it, and it will then clean up the program for you. Windows ping will > ping 3 times and then stop.
You can do ping -c n where n is number of packets sent. -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://counter.li.org
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