Anyone seeing ping corruption?

Lukas Tribus lukas at ltri.eu
Thu Dec 9 16:50:01 UTC 2021


On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 17:39, Deepak Jain <deepak at ai.net> wrote:
> Google’s 14 corrupts the packet or maybe deliberately manipulates it? 1.1.1.1 doesn’t do that.

8.8.8.8 truncates ICMP's responses, this is well known. Different
platforms will react differently to it.

lukas at dev:~$ ping 8.8.8.8 -c1 -s1000
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 1000(1028) bytes of data.
76 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 (truncated)

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.657/5.657/5.657/0.000 ms
lukas at dev:~$ ping 1.1.1.1 -c1 -s1000
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 1000(1028) bytes of data.
1008 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=15.8 ms

--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.893/15.893/15.893/0.000 ms
lukas at dev:~$


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