In article <[log in to unmask]>, Goetz Neumann  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I seem to recall the system abort happens only if you specify a huge
>packet size. Pinging for diagnostic purposes with smaller packet sizes
>should not be a problem.

See the Ping o' Death Page for the technical details:

        http://www.sophist.demon.co.uk/ping/

FYI, HP just released the HPUX patches for this problem today, so maybe MPE
isn't too far behind.
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