[moved to tech@] On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Horv??th Tam??s wrote: > Dear List! > > I've found in the man page of ping the following: "If less than > eight bytes of pad are specified, no round trip times are given." > However I experienced that round trip times are shown *only* when I > give packetsize >= 24 to the ping. This is the case whether I did the > ping as root or as another user.
That is correct, the man page wasn't update when we switched to 64 bit seconds + 64 bit nano seconds + mac OK? diff --git ping.8 ping.8 index a875a81..62fbbca 100644 --- ping.8 +++ ping.8 @@ -299,11 +299,12 @@ Thus the amount of data received inside of an IP packet of type ICMP will always be 8 bytes more than the requested data space (the ICMP header). .Pp -If the data space is at least eight bytes large, +If the data space is at least twenty-four bytes large, .Nm -uses the first eight bytes of this space to include a timestamp which +uses the first sixteen bytes of this space to include a timestamp which it uses in the computation of round trip times. -If less than eight bytes of pad are specified, no round trip times are +The following 8 bytes store a message authentication code. +If less than twenty-four bytes of pad are specified, no round trip times are given. .Sh DUPLICATE AND DAMAGED PACKETS .Nm -- I'm not entirely sure you are real.
