On Friday 01 April 2005 22:41, Beast wrote: >Hi, > >Is there any way to make ping in linux behave like ping in MS > Windows? thus it will print "Request timed out" when reply is not > received within x ms intead on print nothing in screen. > > >--beast ping -c4 site-to-ping -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.