buggy 'ping' in Treo 700P?

n6gn · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: buggy 'ping' in Treo 700P?

Maybe someone else can verify this:

I note that the ping function, available under the prefs:network log as
ping <hostname> -b <num bytes> -l <num loops>
or
PingEvt <number> <hostname> -b <num bytes> -l <num loops>
never succeeds if the the "b" number is odd or if it is greater than 996.

Perhaps this is related to a tcp/ip setting. I tried it on a 'stock' 700P.
I can understand an upper limit on the ping length as that is a potential DOS attack method but the no-odd-values would seem to be a bug.

Is this an already-known bug of the 700p or perhaps of the Palm OS?

n6gn