Bug 8724

Summary: broken -c and -w options
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: James Manning <jmm>
Component: netkit-baseAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Version: 6.1   
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URL: http://sublogic.com/rpms/
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Description James Manning 2000-01-21 19:38:15 UTC 
The -c and -w options failed both when -f (flood) was used and
when a host was down (but no ICMP error packets were getting
returned from routers) due to their logic checking placement
in the for(;;) loop of the program.  The "optcw" patch in the
src.rpm fixes this.

Also, -w was broken by checking time passed > time to run
so it would always run 1 second longer than requested,
and the "deadline" patch fixes this by changing it to >=

Both the .src.rpm and .i386.rpm are available at
http://sublogic.com/rpms/ with the above two patches and
two simple %changelog entries for them, nothing else.

-38 fixed the logic placement for the options but didn't
catch the -w problem, -39 (available at the url) adds
this fix.

The -c option fix has been sent to the netkit-base maintainers
against their 0.16 which doesn't include a -w option.
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-27 19:39:59 UTC 
Fixed in iputils-991024-2 from Raw Hide. The optcw patch was already
part of the sources, and I've added the deadline patch.

Thanks for the patches.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-27 20:04:59 UTC 
*** Bug 6160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-27 20:05:59 UTC 
*** Bug 6254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ****** Bug 6262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-27 20:06:59 UTC 
*** Bug 7785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-27 20:07:59 UTC 
*** Bug 7264 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 agyorgi 2000-02-26 07:00:59 UTC 
The updated netkit-base (netkit-base-0.10-39.i386.rpm) for Red Hat Linux 6.1
from "http://sublogic.com/rpms/" fixes the ping -c switch, but still it does not
fix the exit status... the ping executable enclosed in the updated netkit-base
always returns 0 whether the ping is successful or not (tested this for both
the local network segment and an external site)... I have updated my iputils
package from Red Hat's Rawhide ftp site to iputils-991024-4.i386.rpm
only to find out that the -c switch is broken in that release! The above 2
'patches' fix one problem but not the other... so as far as I'm concerned, this
is a catch-22 situation... is there a ping out there for RH 6.1 that actually
works the way it should? If there is, please give specific URL location(s) for
them... if there is a procedure or workaround, please state it in an unambiguous
manner. I have read all the mozilla bug reports regarding ping (quite a few) and
have read only generic statements from the developer(s) who are addressing this
problem.
Comment 7 Jeff Johnson 2000-02-27 17:52:59 UTC 
The package iputils-991024-5 (which contains ping) from Raw Hide
	ftp://rawhide.redhat.com
fixes the problems described above as well as returning a valid exit code.
Comment 8 Pekka Savola 2000-07-18 22:09:34 UTC 
*** Bug 13211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***