ping oddity

Barney Wolff barney at pit.databus.com
Sun Apr 13 11:25:30 PDT 2003


The "wrong data byte" output from ping is a cosmetic bug in ping - it
starts the compare too early, with the timestamp.  So any time the
response comes back after the next request has already been sent, the
check will fail.
I've filed a PR with a suggested fix to ping.c.

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