Re: pre9 total IP failure, bad performance with pre[78]
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:56:28 -0500
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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