[plug] Ping Wonder

[Joon Guillen]

I was pinging a site on the internet using a Slackware box, and came across this ping output:   [snip] 64 octets from 203.172.11.21: icmp_seq=0 ttl=250 time=2721.1 ms wrong data byte #0 should be 0x7e but was 0x7c7c 1e c9 3c f0 ed 1 0         8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27         28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f [/snip]   As you can see, I'm pinging infocom's DNS server.  We are connected via leased line from Infocom.  The output above only happens when pinging anything outside our router.  All machines within, including the router itself, sends ping replies "cleanly".   Another funny thing is, only the Slackware box does this; the RedHat boxes don't display unusual outputs.   Any idea what the above means?   TIA   jOoN