[plug] audible ping

[James Bromberger]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 11:02:48AM +0800, bob wrote:
> I'm trying to trace a wiring problem in the lan (intermittent open) and
> thought the old ping -a would be useful. Apparently thats only BSDish
> pings though and not implemented in any of the Debian/Mandrake/Redhat
> pings I have available. Freshmeat did not come to the rescue and nothing
> I've googled for seems useful either.
> 
> So... anyone know of anything like that I can use?

There are two different pings available under debian:
	netkit-ping
	iputils-ping

The default is netkit-ping, IIRC. The iputils-ping has a "-a" option:


       -a     Audible ping.


Just `apt-get install iputils-ping` to change.

HTH.

 James
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