Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> .......
> 
> My concern, of course, being a [hopefully] nice little Net citizen, is
> not wanting to irritate anyone by taking about 302kB out of their
> transfer quota every hour (3600 pings * 84 bytes each), unless they're
> intending to be so generous.
> 


FWIW, you can specify the size of the data packet:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -s 0 10.155.9.8
PING 10.155.9.8 (10.155.9.8) 0(28) bytes of data.
8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128
8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128
8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128
8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128
8 bytes from 10.155.9.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128

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