>> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=-7.-9 ms
>
>Now that *is* weird! Apparently the transistor density is so great
>it has generated a temporal discontinuity right across your
>loopback. I suggest reconfiguring the sensor array to emit an
>inverse tachyon pulse...
:-)
> More realistically, this implies either that a gettimeofday()
>performed on reciept of the packet gives a time *before* that
>given by the gettimeofday() that was performed when the packet
>was generated (unlikely?) or that the first few bytes of the
>packet got corrupted somewhere. Can anyone reproduce this?
If it helps, these weird negative pings also happen to other hosts...
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