Re: Linux tcp over loopback

Speed Racer (shagboy@dns.bluesky.net)
Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:02:02 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Carl V Streeter wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > The number received is always 182 for some reason...
>
> Same here. And I'm running 1.3.67 + linus' TCP patch (the one where you
> had to walk around the computer and chant...) The 182 shows up as well.

Strange... similar problem here, but the number is 175. This is on
1.2.13, btw...

shag

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