Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 01:53:18 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.8 ping.c Message-ID: <19980827015318.A2922@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <19980826110316.61684@kublai.com>; from Brian Cully on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 11:03:16AM -0400 References: <199808260158.SAA07564@freefall.freebsd.org> <19980826143454.03686@follo.net> <19980826110316.61684@kublai.com>
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> I agree, we frequently use ping to detect when a machine has come > back up from a remote reboot, and needing to be root to do so would be > a hinderance. Moreover, from the sound of things, you can only ping > 100 times as root, which may not be enough (POST on a UE450 can take > forever :-)). Seems most of us are in agreement on this one. So Matt, is this going to be backed out?? I'd also like to see continuious pings the default again. Why do we have to be this non-standard for *BSD machines? When I run ping, I often don't know how many I want to send out. I ^C when I've seen enought. I understand your needs as an ISP, but I'm not sure these changes are best for the general FreeBSD public. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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