I think the -a parameter to ping would be useful to you. It makes the pc
speaker emit a beep for every reply. If you have the speaker working and
are not hearing impaired, you will NOT forget! :)
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Leif Neland wrote:
> I've been hit by a "forgotten ping" again.
>
> I still do not see a reason for not having a default number of pings, instead of
>infinite.
> The only reason I've seen is "It's always been so".
>
> Even if a default of 4 pings is not acceptable, because windows does it that way,
>why not a large default then?
>
> If somebody _really_ want to ping forever, let them use -t0, and defend the rest of
>us from our blunders of forgetting a ping, keeping the line open infinitely.
>
> How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so?
>
> I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected.
>
> Leif
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