How many ping response characters are there and what's their mean?
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This should answer your question.
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Alternatively, you can simply read the available documentation, and the reference documents about ICMP, which is the protocol ping uses.
the RFC describesprecisely the way the protocol works, and the exchanged messages:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc792.html
page 14 contains the description of the echo and echo reply messages ping uses.
A more graphical documentation, summarizing the information of the rfc
http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/icmp/msg0.htm
And obviously, the first thing you should have done is to read the ping(8) man page, which contains some useful information too
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ping++NetBSD-current
