Re: Flood ping

Michael L. Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:20:16 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, George wrote:

>
> Anyone tried flood pinging localhost lately?
>
> With Linux 2.1.122 SMP (2xPentium 133) I get:
>
> --- localhost ping statistics ---
> 38831 packets transmitted, 781 packets received, 97% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 0.6/103.7/331.4 ms

ping -f on 122 UP (P150MMX) doesn't act sane either.

--- localhost ping statistics ---
150208 packets transmitted, 766 packets received, 99% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.4/190.3/373.7 ms <== -pg -g

However...

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:577188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:577188 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0

Strace and tcpdump (glance) look like all is groovy.

-Mike

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