On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Parag Nemade wrote: > hello, > i want to add my own variables with icmp header. > so i modified icmp header and added 2 variables to > make icmp header len is 16 bytes. but when i build > kernel image and boot it and then ping to myself why > am i still getting 8 bytes header i.e. 84 bytes packet > and why not 92 bytes packet? > 56 bytes data + 16 bytes icmp header + 20 bytes ip > header = 92 bytes > also ping results shown below takes much time to ping > myself. what gone wrong? how to make it behave like > normal ping? You don't modify the kernel to make a new ICMP packet! You modify `ping` or make your own. If you change the length of the header, it is no longer ICMP. Your tools will misinterpret what you have. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5557.45 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html