I'm running a script that's doing a periodic ping to some cisco routers. I'm using ping -w 5 to have it bail out in case the host is down / unreachable. somehow there are a few ones that are not directly attached that ping will wait for forever. I do have a correct route to them. Does someone have a clue why the -w option does not work in those cases? Should the intermediate router be sending icmp unreachables or something like that? Serge Maandag - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
