Re: Question on BogoMIPS

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:49:14 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> Yes, same here. The _really_ weird thing I've seen is problems with
> negative results from ping:
>
> hammer:~$ ping localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=-12.-1 ms
> 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?

Mike

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