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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Unix ICMP ping or something?
Date: 5 Aug 1996 16:19:18 GMT
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"Joshua Urbanczyk" <joshua@wtrt.net> wrote:

> I need help to use my unix machine to send a flood ping.

ping -f

You need to be root in order to be allowed doing this.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j