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Re: Anyone seeing ping corruption?


From: J Doe <general () nativemethods com>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:41:34 -0500

On 2021-12-09 11:50, Lukas Tribus wrote:

On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 17:39, Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net> wrote:
Google’s 14 corrupts the packet or maybe deliberately manipulates it? 1.1.1.1 doesn’t do that.

8.8.8.8 truncates ICMP's responses, this is well known. Different
platforms will react differently to it.

lukas@dev:~$ ping 8.8.8.8 -c1 -s1000
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 1000(1028) bytes of data.
76 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 (truncated)

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.657/5.657/5.657/0.000 ms
lukas@dev:~$ ping 1.1.1.1 -c1 -s1000
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 1000(1028) bytes of data.
1008 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=15.8 ms

--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.893/15.893/15.893/0.000 ms
lukas@dev:~$

Hi,

Out of curiosity - does anyone know why Google is truncating ICMP responses ?

Thanks,

- J



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