Brian Henning wrote: > Hi Folks, > ....... > > My concern, of course, being a [hopefully] nice little Net citizen, is > not wanting to irritate anyone by taking about 302kB out of their > transfer quota every hour (3600 pings * 84 bytes each), unless they're > intending to be so generous. >
FWIW, you can specify the size of the data packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -s 0 10.155.9.8 PING 10.155.9.8 (10.155.9.8) 0(28) bytes of data. 8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
