On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dean wrote: > Just got debian up ( bare bones) and went to internet and to check I > first pinged IPS, then debian.org and ping wouldn't stop. Finally got > off internet by poff in another vc, ping cont. to try to send. Any > suggestions on ping? Also what can I do to stop a run away like this?
Man ping is your friend ;) Of course, if you've not run dselect yet, you won't have man. Anyway, ^C will stop ping and make it give you the statistics. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte