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'''-M do''' Use the path discovery options to ping. The option is -M. See the man page for all the options.
 
''' -s 1472''' When setting size in ping, the size is the payload size - not the full packet size. The full packet size is <syntaxhighlight inline> payload + ICMP header</syntaxhighlight> size (2820 bytes for the IP header and 8 bytes for the ICMP header). The option for payload size is -s.
 
Note: ping is slightly different on different operating systems, the above is a Debian machine.
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