Re: Flood ping

Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]> 10 Jun 2004 18:20:10 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.valhalla
Organization Speaking for myself only.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Harry Hambi" <[email protected]> writes:

> Can somebody explain what flood ping is, more importantly what it
> can tell you about your network.

Check "man ping" - the "-f" option. The description will explain to
you that it can show you how many packets are dropped in your network
for different rates (that you can control with the "-i" option) and
packet sizes (controllable with the "-s" option).

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Oleg Goldshmidt | [email protected]