On 13. September 2000 Moritz Schulte wrote: > Hi, > > I have some network problems/questions. I have a rtl8139 card, the > pfinet server seems to be set correctly. (i can ping the ip address of > my card - 192.168.0.2) > > 1) if i do 'ping -c 2 -f 192.168.0.2', ping says: transmitted packages > 4; reveived packages: 2; 50% packet loss. why does ping try to > transmit the double number of packets, which i've set with '-c'?
ping -c 2 transmits packets until two icmp replies have been received. With the -f option ping transmits these packets as fast as possible. And during the time the first packages travel back to you your ping manages to send another two echo requests. I have no answer to the other question, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
