From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 Description of problem: Ping on Solaris and Debian starts icmp_seq at 0. Apparently on RH it starts at one. Is there a reason for this? This makes it difficult to make a cross distribution tool that reads the ping results. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): iputils-20020927-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ping www.google.com Actual Results: On RH9 w/ rawhide iptools built from SRPM % ping www.google.com PING www.google.com (216.239.57.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=45 time=92.1 ms 64 bytes from 216.239.57.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=45 time=93.6 ms Expected Results: On Solaris and possibly others: % ping -s www.google.com PING www.google.com: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 216.239.33.99: icmp_seq=0. time=88. ms 64 bytes from 216.239.33.99: icmp_seq=1. time=89. ms Additional info:
Included in iputils-20020927-9 and later. Read ya, Phil