Re: ping error

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:37:13 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Thomas.

> OK, now I'm confused. I have a RedHat 6.0 box which doesn't
> exhibit this phenomenon. My ping output follows quoted
> material.

You also didn't get ping times well over 1000 ms, which is where the
bug hits. Note that the ones quoted by the other correspondants were
considerably larger than the ones you showed...

>>> 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
^^^^^^
> [root@wr5z profile.d]# ping 208.223.154.11
> PING 208.223.154.11 (208.223.154.11): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 208.223.154.11: icmp_seq=0 ttl=238 time=132.8 ms
^^^^^

Note the difference between the arrowed numbers...

Best wishes from Riley.

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