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Message-ID: <CANeMGR4=vycxBU+LcrL2JXHt2FTYBkU2aLxfY5XRzHdws-aYag@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:04:39 +0100 From: Guan Xin <guanx.bac@...il.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: ping: What's the purpose of rate limit? Hello, Excuse me, I searched but didn't find an answer -- What's the purpose of setting a limit to the "-i" and "-l" parameters of ping for non-root users? It seems that this is only intended to prevent accidental misuse because these restrictions can be easily worked around by starting multiple instances or wrapping the program in a loop, e.g., while true; do ping -l3 -c3 192.168.0.1; done (Please Cc to me because I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks!) Regards, Guan
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