strange pings

[Jason Shein]

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On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:23, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> What machine produces a ping with size=72 decimal and uninitialised packet
> content = 0xAA ... I get lots of these. What are they ? Should I set
> uninitialized space in my reply to 0xAA and see what happens/follows ?
> <evil grin>
> 
> Normal pings have size=56 (64 including header) and uninitialised packet
> bytes are 0x00.
> 
> Peter
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