From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wingtung.Leung" Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:23:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] ping can do DS????? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 18 May 2001, Juergen wrote: > Today I try a little function in "ping www.yam.com -Q 40" for DS. > And it's workable. > ToS Byte is modify by ping command. > But I thought it's a strange situation. > If that mean that I can use ping for DS high level support???? (Like AF 11) > And it can modify DS field by itself, no need for root's promiss???? > (I use ping command without root commission) I don't have the -Q option for the ping command, what does it doe on your system? Know that ping uses a special type of IP packets, ICMP. I wouldn't be surprised if the system changes the DS field automaticly. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/