Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/06/13/10:08:29
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:24:27AM +0200, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just had a (short) session with Wireshark:
>
>* On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:39:09PM -0700 Gary Johnson wrote:
>
>> I've been using Cygwin's ping (/usr/bin/ping, ping-1.0-1) to do some
>> testing of IP over a wireless modem.
>[...]
>
>> It looks like someone just wrote a short integer to the sequence
>> number field without calling htons() to perform the possible
>> little-endian to big-endian conversion.
>
>I can confirm this for both cygwin ping and for Windows (XP SP2) ping.
>
>> I
>> would compare it to ping on other systems, but I don't have a
>> convenient way to sniff those packets.
>
>Well, Debian/Linux (Etch, v4.0) does it in network byte order, as one
>(might) expect. Differently to the Windows and Cygwin ping, it starts
>the sequence number with 1, not with 0.
>
>Should it be changed? I don't know, I never had a problem with it, but
>others might.
ping does not have a maintainer currently so, unless someone wants to take
over maintainership, it is not likely to be changed and bug reports against
ping are not likely to be acted upon.
cgf
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