Re: Why not a default number of pings?
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 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, why not a large default then? 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. How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so? I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Why not a default number of pings?
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) for many years - with ping having a default count of 1. I hated it - I almost always used the -s option to get *my* desired ping behavior (standard BSD). And it wasn't a case of being used to something else - SunOS *was* my first contact with Unix. So please don't change the default behavior of ping. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Why not a default number of pings?
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 :-) Kris "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Why not a default number of pings?
* 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, because windows does it that way, why not a large default then? 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. How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so? I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected. Please provide a reference to the PR you submitted and I'll have a look. I don't think this modification will go in unless it's based on the 'MAX_PING=3600' idea with a default for infinity. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Why not a default number of pings?
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, why not a large default then? 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. How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so? 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Why not a default number of pings?
: : How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so? : : 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. : :-- :"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" : :Wes Peters Softweyr LLC :[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ We've had the 'ping' argument before. I personally don't think we should touch it. There are thousand ways one can hang oneself and adding environment variables or config options or default limitations for no other reason then to avoid someone accidently leaving the program running is a waste of time and an unnecessary pollution of the code. Just create a global alias in /etc/csh.cshrc (etc) if you want to impose a default pint count limit. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
