0 bytes pin using check_ping

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:

> dhaval thakar wrote:
>> Dear Andy,
>>
>> thanks for your reply,
>> of course  practically I'll not get 0 byte ping.

Well. As long as there is any stretch of ethernet involved you will get a 
minimum size of 64 byte packets. Anything below 64 bytes is not valid on 
ethernet.

See also RFC 894 (being one of the few real standards in RFC documents).

Hugo.

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