Bug 13211

Summary:	ping ignores -c and -w options for non-local hosts
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	bernd
Component:	netkit-base	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
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Description bernd 2000-06-29 14:21:45 UTC

The following works only if a host is on the local subnet and down:
ping -c 5 down.local.network (or ping -w 5 down.local.network)

For non local host, this will run forever or until stopped by Ctrl-C:
ping -w 2 down.remote.network
PING down.remote.network (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd) from (rrr.sss.ttt.uuu) 56(84)
bytes of data.
(time passes, much more than 2 seconds, pressing Ctrl-C)
--- down.remote.network ping statistics ---
43 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

The same happens with '-c 2'.

RedHat 6.1, netkit-base-0.10-37.
The problem does not exist in RedHat 5.2 (netkit-base-0.10-13).

Comment 1 bernd 2000-07-18 10:34:45 UTC

This bug will be propably marked as a duplicate of bug 8724, with the suggestion
to install iputils from the rawhide distribution.  Two comments:
a) iputils from rawhide can not be installed with the standard rpm
command          (error message: "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are
supported by this     version of RPM")
b) It is in my eyes a bad idea to put a bugfix for one package (netkit-base)in
   a package with a different name (iputils).  That breaks the idea behind
the      -F option of the rpm command.  At least for distributions that come
with         netkit-base there should also be fix with the same name.

Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2000-07-18 22:09:36 UTC

If this is important for you, I suggest you install rpm-3.0.5 binary from
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test/ and --rebuild iputils SRPM using it.  That way
you can use it in 6.x too.

I agree that "change" of package name can be unfortunate, but you just can't
stick to certain names and contents forever and also try to maintain full
backward compatibility; That'd be just too much work.  Linux world is developing
and changing rapidly :). Critical bugfixes and security issues are usually
packported though.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8724 ***