Hi Tom,
This is documented in ping(8):
-s packetsize
Specify the number of data bytes to be sent. The default
is 56, which translates into 64 ICMP data bytes when
combined with the 8 bytes of ICMP header data. The
maximum packet size is 65467 for IPv4 and 65527 for IPv6.
You can play around with the 56 bytes, but those 8 are non-negotiable:
they're always added. Note that it says 56 *data* bytes versus 64
(total) bytes.
On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:52:17PM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote:
| Hello I see a small discrepancy between the measurement
| of sent and received packets as displayed by ping command
|
| on the wire the sent and received packets are the same size
| I had a brief go
|
| foo# ping 5.134.88.1
| PING 5.134.88.1 (5.134.88.1): 56 data bytes
| 64 bytes from 5.134.88.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=91.719 ms
|
| it would appear that one measurement is the ICMP Payload only
| and the other is the ICMP payload + ICMP header (8 byte difference)
|
|
| foo# grep -n " data bytes" /root/ping.c
| 760: printf("%s): %d data bytes\n", pr_addr(dst, dst->sa_len), datalen);
| foo# grep -n " bytes from" /root/ping.c
| 1248: printf("%d bytes from %s: icmp_seq=%u", cc,
| 1292: printf("%d bytes from %s: ", cc, pr_addr(from, fromlen));
|
| looking at the source code it looks like the size = %d but %d is presenting
| different values
| I didnt see where %d was being changed between line 760 and line 1248
| It has been a while since I looked at C programming in anger and im a bit
| rusty...
| any pointers on where i should be looking so that I can submit a patch
You seem to be misunderstanding the format string passed that you
found. %d is part of a format string, see printf(3). The "%"
indicates a conversion specification, the "d" indicates the type of
conversion, in this case a signed integer. The arguments following
the format string are filled in where a conversion specification is
given in the format string, in the order given. So in this example:
#include <stdio.h>;
int main() {
int number;
const char* test;
text = "Hi Tom!";
number = 42;
printf("string: %s\nnumber: %d\n", string, number)
return 0;
}
The printf(3) function gets called with three arguments. The first is
the format string: "string: %s\nnumber: %d\n". As you can see,
there's two conversion specifications in there, "%s" and "%d". "%s"
is for a "char*" argument, it gets replaced with the second argument
to the function (the variable 'string', which we gave the value "Hi
Tom!"). "%d" is for the integer argument, it gets replaced with a
decimal representation of the value of the third argument to the
function (the variable 'number', which we gave the value 42).
Applying this knowledge to the three lines you found in the ping
source:
In line 760, %d gets the value from variable 'datalen'.
In lines 1248 and 1292, %d gets the value from variable 'cc'.
Note that 'cc' could be changed between those two lines, so the value
printed in the end doesn't *have* to be the same - that depends on the
rest of the code.
Cheers,
Paul
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