Re: ICMP Echo + DF

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:10:03 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Matei Conovici wrote:

>
> hi!
>
> Is there a (good) reason linux doesn't reply to ICMP echo request
> packets with the DF bit set ?
>
> For some reason ping-ing linux boxes from solaris does not work, while
> ping-ing from a linux box in the same subnet (with the solaris
> machine) works.

It works here.

# uname -a
SunOS hal 5.5.1 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
# ping chaos
chaos.analogic.com is alive

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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