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From: merritt@BRL.ARPA (Don Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  PING with source/record route
Message-ID: <8805271205.aa03455@SPARK.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 27 May 88 16:05:22 GMT
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The BRL ping program was modified by Phil Dykstra to handle the record route
option a couple of months ago. It is available for anonymous ftp from host
brl-vgr.arpa as ~ftp/pub/ping.tar. Here is Phil's description of the changes
he made:


	The new ping differs by:
	1) It will only show ICMP error messages when the -v flag is given.
	   This will help reduce confusion from general users.
	2) When IP packet headers are returned in ICMP error messages
	   their headers are dumped broken down by fields.
	3) Identification of ICMP error subcodes is now in the printed
	   messages.
	4) The RECORD_ROUTE option can be included in outgoing packets
	   and the returned route is dumped.
	5) Hostnames for dotted quads are looked up (unless a -n is given).