Re: Flood ping

kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 14:51:30 -0500 (CDT)


And lo, Justin A. Kolodziej saith unto me:
> > Anyone tried flood pinging localhost lately?
> >
> > With Linux 2.1.122 SMP (2xPentium 133) I get:
I get similar results with 2.0.35-redhat.

> > --- localhost ping statistics ---
> > 38831 packets transmitted, 781 packets received, 97% packet loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max = 0.6/103.7/331.4 ms
> >
>
> For me, it always stops at 766 packets received.
I didn't check this...

> I refuse to floodping any other site on my network because that would
> surely be considered abuse.
I can ping a 2.1.10? over 100BaseTX tulip clones tonight...

> Over 22 million errors? I wish I knew what was going on here... :(
*This* is a FAQ. Adding byte counts in /proc broke old ifconfigs,
and few noticed and/or upgraded... Cat /proc/net/dev and you'll
see the same numbers under correct column headings...

Keith

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