High packet loss :-(

Grant orbman at thingysrealm.myftp.org
Tue May 25 17:28:10 BST 2004


Sam Smith wrote:

>On Tue, 25 May 2004, Grant wrote:
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>>William Cooper wrote:
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>>>>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...
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>>>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:
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>>>May 25 16:01:34 machinename kernel: Limiting icmp ping response from 
>>>247 to 200 packets/sec
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>>freebsd /kernel: Limiting icmp ping response from 246 to 200 packets per 
>>second
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>>yea i got a few of them...
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>>is its a feature of freebsd only or something? as its the only freebsd 
>>box i have... none of the linux boxes do that...
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>>is its some sort of protection?
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>It looks like you need to do some more reading.
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>Sam
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ummmm ok... any chance of pointing me to a good read then? (other than 
google)

also this isnt really the type of thing i would read up about unless i 
find/found a problem... which i did but i thought it was best to ask, 
maybe some other people wondered the same thing... i dunno...


Thanks.
Grant.





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