[Nottingham] Solaris 9 Ping Question

Graeme Fowler graeme at graemef.net
Tue May 3 16:06:09 BST 2005


On Tue 03 May 2005 15:28:38 BST , Moses O'Hara 
<Moses.O'hara at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> We've got a Solaris box running Solaris 9 (kde control center reports 
> sunos 5.9 if this is important). I'm wanna use the TTL from ICMP_ECHO 
> requests but ping on the box dosn't seem to report a TTL. I've 
> rummaged through man pages , google etc..,. but no joy.

You're sure you mean TTL? Or do you mean RTT, as in "round trip time"?

http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ping+1M

Looks like you either need the "-t" ttl option, or the "-s" (one packet 
per second, collect stats) option.

G




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