On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:40:17 +1200, Eric Light wrote:
I'm investigating a flaky printer, and was running ping -f to see when it went down. I got the following:
PING prn37.forlongs.local (10.7.140.37) 56(84) bytes of data. ..................................................... ..................................................... ..................................................... .......E.............................................
... what the heck is the 'E'? I can't find it in the man pages.
From ping.c in the iputils-ping package in Debian:
int receive_error_msg() { ... } else if (e->ee_origin == SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP) { ... if (options & F_FLOOD) { write_stdout("\bE", 2); ... } This routine is called from ping_common.c when “An ICMP error arrived”.