Paul Flo Williams wrote: >> [tim@mary tmp]$ ping -s 1466 -c 3 -M do www.google.com >> PING www.l.google.com (74.125.39.104) 1466(1494) bytes of data. >> From homegate.homenet.telecomitalia.it (192.168.1.1) icmp_seq=1 Frag >> needed and DF set (mtu = 1492) >> >> Incidentally, what exactly does "DF set" mean? >> Is it telling me that DF is set, >> or that it should be set (or even, should not be set)? >> If the latter, how can I do that? > > DF is the Don't Fragment bit in the IP header flags field. It's telling > you that you set it (with -M do), so it can't fragment the packet. But I get the DF set response even if I don't use the -M option: ---------------------------------------------------------- [tim@mary etc]$ ping -s 1466 www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (74.125.39.99) 1466(1494) bytes of data. >From homegate.homenet.telecomitalia.it (192.168.1.1) icmp_seq=1 Frag needed and DF set (mtu = 1492) ^C ---------------------------------------------------------- Nb I have solved the problem, as I mention elsewhere in the thread. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines