On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 16:11, Michael Weber wrote:
> All works fine, until the router sends back a "no route to host" type
> message. When this happens, the ping command simply hangs. It never
> returns and I quickly have a few hundred ping commands sleeping in my
> process table.
ping -w 5 -c 1 some.host will die after 5 seconds if no pong returns
^^^^
Piero
