High packet loss :-(

[Sam Smith]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Grant wrote:
> William Cooper wrote:
> >> was reading about stress testing networks... so i thought i would try 
> >> mine out, every single box passed (0% loss) apart from  my freebsd 
> >> 4.9 box...
> >
> > I believe FreeBSD is limiting the packets, if you do a tail 
> > /var/log/messages after pinging the machine you may see messages like 
> > this:
> >
> > May 25 16:01:34 machinename kernel: Limiting icmp ping response from 
> > 247 to 200 packets/sec
> >
> freebsd /kernel: Limiting icmp ping response from 246 to 200 packets per 
> second
> 
> yea i got a few of them...
> 
> is its a feature of freebsd only or something? as its the only freebsd 
> box i have... none of the linux boxes do that...
> 
> is its some sort of protection?

It looks like you need to do some more reading.




Sam