commited, thanks! On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 01:51:00PM +0000, Florian Obser wrote: > [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. >
-- I'm not entirely sure you are real.
