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���.
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