From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:428d8acb.1935302{at}216.144.1.254...

> ping -l 51000 cisco.com
> ping -f -l 51000 cisco.com
>
> Actually, I just tried this and it didn't work. Maybe cisco are rejecting
> pings that are excessively long. Try it on a local computer. You can use
> any number up to almost 64K for the length.

Typically it will be your ISP or the backbones that are blocking that.
Alternet uses icmp dampening so the first will go thru but following pings
won't. Pisses me off because we don't do this but alternet was doing it to
our backbone connection to them.

Geo.

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