Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:56:28 -0500 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: pre9 total IP failure, bad performance with pre[78] |
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On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 06:35:22PM +0100, Henrik Olsen wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 05:42:44PM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote: > > > Just booted pre9 aka 2.2.0-final. Hate to say bring something like this > > > up, but I experienced what appears to be complete IP/TCP/ICMP failure. Can > > > get at most 1 ping response from ANY interface, including loopback. No tcp > > > connections can be established, etc. With pre7 and pre8, a ping -f > > > localhost gives between 80-95% packet loss on average but the behavior > > > appears in "spurts": > > > > I don't thing ping -f is a very good idea: I have a 2.1.132 kernel, with > > perfectly working network, and a ping -f localhost basically gives up after > > 766 replies. Whether I run it for a fraction of a second or 5, I get the > > same number. Not too useful. > That is a problem caused by not reading Documentation/Changes > > Your ping is seeing both the ICMP echo request and the echo reply, and > miscounts. > Upgrade your nettools and it will go away.
ok, maybe... but then shouldn't the count be wrong rather than constant?
-- arvind
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