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Ping command is being weird

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Name: just_hey
Date: November 17, 2003 at 04:11:24 Pacific
OS: linux red hat
CPU/Ram: celeron 1600/512
Comment:

hi
I'm using redhat and Im having problems with Ping command.If I ping some PC it keeps on receiving replies and I can't stop it.If on the other hand I Ping some nonexisting PC it frozes the OS

thanx

Is this normal behaviour and how do I stop it?



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Response Number 1
Name: unixhead
Date: November 17, 2003 at 08:29:12 Pacific
Reply:


ctrl-alt-C stops the ping. By default, it's a continuous ping.

You can set it to ping only once with an alias command in your .bashrc:

alias ping='ping -c1"

Or, you could type:

ping -c1 www.somewhere.com



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Response Number 2
Name: unixhead
Date: November 17, 2003 at 08:30:33 Pacific
Reply:

oops.

That should have been:

alias ping='ping -c1'

in your .bashrc


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Response Number 3
Name: drake
Date: November 17, 2003 at 10:21:46 Pacific
Reply:

windows also has this capacity but its not default
ping 1.1.1.1 -t
-t tells it to continue pinging


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Response Number 4
Name: unixhead
Date: November 18, 2003 at 06:15:11 Pacific
Reply:

The fact that Windows has any capacity to ping is due to Unix. Particularly, BSD -- since that was the system the ping utility was written for:

http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html


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