Re: pre9 total IP failure, bad performance with pre[78]
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:10:34 -0500
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 05:42:44PM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote:
> Just booted pre9 aka 2.2.0-final. Hate to say bring something like this
> up, but I experienced what appears to be complete IP/TCP/ICMP failure. Can
> get at most 1 ping response from ANY interface, including loopback. No tcp
> connections can be established, etc. With pre7 and pre8, a ping -f
> localhost gives between 80-95% packet loss on average but the behavior
> appears in "spurts":
I don't thing ping -f is a very good idea: I have a 2.1.132 kernel, with
perfectly working network, and a ping -f localhost basically gives up after
766 replies. Whether I run it for a fraction of a second or 5, I get the
same number. Not too useful.
-- arvind
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