Re: pre9 total IP failure, bad performance with pre[78]
Henrik Olsen (henrik@iaeste.dk)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:35:22 +0100 (CET)
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.
--
Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
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