Re: Linux tcp over loopback

Dr. Delete Ph.D. (doc@lame.org)
Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:32:46 -0500 (EST)

>
> Dr. Delete Ph.D. writes:
> >
> > Linus: Alan says this is an issue with your patches to the tcp code.
> > ('course he's always quick to place blame ;)
> >
> > Ever since about 1.3.62, (this worked with 1.3.59+mark6), I can't use
> > irc to connect to the ircd running on the same machine.. However,
> > people 'on the outside' can use my ircd without any problems. I can
> > also use any ircd 'on the outside', just not 127.0.0.1.
>
> Think that this might be related?
>
> bash# ping -f localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> ....
> --- localhost ping statistics ---
> 1652 packets transmitted, 182 packets received, 88% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 2.7/92.2/183.0 ms

Oddly, telneting to localhost seems to work fine.. infact, so does FTP
and any other thing I've tried..

>
> The number received is always 182 for some reason...
>
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> 

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