On February 19, 2021 8:56:31 PM UTC, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: >Canvassing opinions on having . and ! this way around. I'm using . for >response, ! for no response, which makes more sense to me but it's been >pointed out that it's the opposite of what cisco does so it might >confuse >some people.
Also Junos uses "!" for sucessfull pings and "." for no response. https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB25251 And if I remember it corectly then Brocade did it the same way as Cisco. The "-g" flag is used differently in various ping implementations. From man pages: * FreeBSD: - g is sweepmi size. * NetBSD: -g is used to specify a gateway for loose source routing. * Illumos: same as NetBSD * Linux: no -g I like the feature and think -g is fine. I would prefer if our ping would use "!" in the same way as Cisco. That is probably als consistent with -f where a "." also stands for a echo request. Remi
