pings with noise

[Tim]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 10:58 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> According to the man page whenever you use the -a option on the ping
> command as in:
> ping -a ip-address
> each ping return should cause a noise to be generated.
> 
> I can't seem to get that too happen. What could be wrong?

Does the terminal bell work for you?  Because that's what "dings" when
I've used that option, way back on ye olde Fedora 9.


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