Re: Flood ping

Jauder Ho (jauderho@carumba.com)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:55:52 -0700 (PDT)


actually /proc/net/dev is broken for byte count if anyone cares to fix it.

face |bytes packets errs
eth0: 0 30156456 0

--Jauder

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net wrote:

> And lo, Justin A. Kolodziej saith unto me:
> > > Anyone tried flood pinging localhost lately?
> > >
> > > With Linux 2.1.122 SMP (2xPentium 133) I get:
> I get similar results with 2.0.35-redhat.
>
> > > --- localhost ping statistics ---
> > > 38831 packets transmitted, 781 packets received, 97% packet loss
> > > round-trip min/avg/max = 0.6/103.7/331.4 ms
> > >
> >
> > For me, it always stops at 766 packets received.
> I didn't check this...
>
> > I refuse to floodping any other site on my network because that would
> > surely be considered abuse.
> I can ping a 2.1.10? over 100BaseTX tulip clones tonight...
>
> > Over 22 million errors? I wish I knew what was going on here... :(
> *This* is a FAQ. Adding byte counts in /proc broke old ifconfigs,
> and few noticed and/or upgraded... Cat /proc/net/dev and you'll
> see the same numbers under correct column headings...
>
> Keith
>
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