There is a bug in older versions of ping that made alignment assumptions.
I don't know if there is an updated Woody package, but the bug has been
fixed.
-Jason
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
...
> With my currently installed ping (netkit-ping 0.10-6 from Debian Woody)
> I get unaligned accesses:
...
> [jbglaw@air:/home/jbglaw] $> ping -c 1 localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=13.8 ms
> wrong data byte #8 should be 0x8 but was 0xdc
> c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b
> 2c 2d 2e 2f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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