Re: Mention the maximum packet size in ping6.8

2016-09-03 Thread Florian Obser
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 04:36:04PM +0200, Michal Mazurek wrote: > The code says that the maximum packet size is 131024, but in reality > it's 65527. Values greater than 65527 will cause ping6 to fail: > > $ ping6 -s 10 ::1 > PING6 ::1 (::1): 10 data bytes > ping6: sendms

Mention the maximum packet size in ping6.8

2016-09-03 Thread Michal Mazurek
The code says that the maximum packet size is 131024, but in reality it's 65527. Values greater than 65527 will cause ping6 to fail: $ ping6 -s 10 ::1 PING6 ::1 (::1): 10 data bytes ping6: sendmsg: Invalid argument ping6: wrote ::1 18 chars, ret=-1 Doc