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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ?  --- ip/ping -6
Date: Fri,  1 Jan 2016 17:54:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1f8f6576fac9c407b17c6c169b9d3cd@mule> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb60c30ea8e2c07e6f82ddc88688267c@mule>

unfortunately, there is some imprecision when mixing -4 and -6 with names,
and i don't have a tidy solution.

also, the man page claims that the biggest an icmp packet could possibly be is 8192 bytes, which
is incorrect.  icmp is fragmented like any other ip packet, so the maximum payload is 64k.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-02  1:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-28  9:04 arisawa
2015-12-29  0:10 ` Anthony Martin
2015-12-30 12:48 ` arisawa
2015-12-30 13:21   ` Charles Forsyth
2015-12-30 15:05   ` Steve Simon
2015-12-30 15:26     ` Kurt H Maier
2015-12-30 19:05       ` Steve Simon
2015-12-30 22:43         ` Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen
2015-12-30 23:36           ` Steve Simon
2015-12-31  0:16             ` Bakul Shah
2015-12-31  1:36           ` arisawa
2015-12-31  3:44         ` Dave Eckhardt
2016-01-02  1:12   ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-02  1:54     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2016-01-03 19:58       ` hiro
2016-01-03 20:04         ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 20:31           ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 21:40             ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:43               ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:47               ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04  1:31   ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04 10:51     ` Anthony Martin
2016-01-04 13:04       ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04 13:58         ` erik quanstrom

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