On Fri, 18 May 2001, Juergen wrote: > Today I try a little function in "ping www.yam.com -Q 40" for DS. > And it's workable. > ToS Byte is modify by ping command. > But I thought it's a strange situation. > If that mean that I can use ping for DS high level support???? (Like AF 11) > And it can modify DS field by itself, no need for root's promiss???? > (I use ping command without root commission) I don't have the -Q option for the ping command, what does it doe on your system? Know that ping uses a special type of IP packets, ICMP. I wouldn't be surprised if the system changes the DS field automaticly.