Re: Linux tcp over loopback

Carl V Streeter (streeter@cae.wisc.edu)
Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:58:55 -0600 (CST)

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

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

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