Re: ping error

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:29:10 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>> I recieve this when I ping with my DEC Multia. The output of dmesg has
>> errors saying something like: "Unaligned trap in ping: blah blah". I get
>> one "Unaligned trap" message for each packet that I send. This started to
>> happen when I upgraded from RedHat 5.2 to RedHat 6.0.
>
>I noticed a new ping binary in the alpha updates directory for 6.0 which
>should fix this. It's not a kernel problem.

On a related note, the ping binary in the RedHat 6.0 _Intel_ updates broke
too.

64 bytes from 208.223.154.11: icmp_seq=1785 ttl=255 time=7570.7 ms
wrong data byte #8 should be 0x78 but was 0x71
71 36 8a 37 ad 32 c 0 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 bytes from 208.223.154.11: icmp_seq=1786 ttl=255 time=6580.1 ms
wrong data byte #8 should be 0x78 but was 0x72
72 36 8a 37 98 32 c 0 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 bytes from 208.223.154.11: icmp_seq=1787 ttl=255 time=5600.3 ms
wrong data byte #8 should be 0x78 but was 0x73
73 36 8a 37 b9 32 c 0 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 bytes from 208.223.154.11: icmp_seq=1788 ttl=255 time=4610.6 ms
wrong data byte #8 should be 0x78 but was 0x74
74 36 8a 37 ce 32 c 0 8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f

Doesn't matter whether I ping 1 hop via Ethernet or 1 hop via PPP, I get
the above randomly and in spurts. Didn't happen until I installed the
updates.

-George Greer

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