I think the -a parameter to ping would be useful to you. It makes the pc
speaker emit a beep for every reply. If you have the speaker working and
are not hearing impaired, you will NOT forget! :)
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Leif Neland wrote:
I've been hit by a "forgotten ping" again.
I still do
If somebody _really_ want to ping forever, let them use -t0, and
defend the rest of us from our blunders of forgetting a ping, keeping
the line open infinitely.
I use ping for precisely this purpose. Yes, I could change my setup,
but so could you :-)
I used SunOS (and later Solaris)
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Leif Neland wrote:
If somebody _really_ want to ping forever, let them use -t0, and
defend the rest of us from our blunders of forgetting a ping, keeping
the line open infinitely.
I use ping for precisely this purpose. Yes, I could change my setup,
but so could you :-)
* Leif Neland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000117 16:16] wrote:
I've been hit by a "forgotten ping" again.
I still do not see a reason for not having a default number of pings, instead of
infinite.
The only reason I've seen is "It's always been so".
Even if a default of 4 pings is not acceptable,
Leif Neland wrote:
I've been hit by a "forgotten ping" again.
I still do not see a reason for not having a default number of pings, instead of
infinite.
The only reason I've seen is "It's always been so".
Even if a default of 4 pings is not acceptable, because windows does it that way,
:
: How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so?
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: I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected.
:
:Maybe a PING_OPTS environment variable would be more acceptable. You could
:set yours to "-c 4" system wide, and this might be more palatable to
:FreeBSD in general.
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