From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 15:38:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE40016A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:38:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from overlord.e-gerbil.net (e-gerbil.net [69.31.1.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682B243D45 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ras@overlord.e-gerbil.net) Received: from overlord.e-gerbil.net (ras@localhost.e-gerbil.net [127.0.0.1]) by overlord.e-gerbil.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBINc5jg059747; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:38:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ras@overlord.e-gerbil.net) Received: (from ras@localhost) by overlord.e-gerbil.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id hBINc54a059746; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:38:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ras) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:38:05 -0500 From: Richard A Steenbergen To: billf@mu.org Message-ID: <20031218233805.GQ82121@overlord.e-gerbil.net> References: <2B766ABB-3027-11D8-A624-000A95775140@battleface.com> <38E6743A-3044-11D8-B24B-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net> <20031217043232.GC82802@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031217043232.GC82802@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org cc: Kevin Stevens Subject: Re: suffering from poor network performance... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:38:09 -0000 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:32:32PM -0800, Bill Fumerola wrote: > [ this isn't really -net material ] > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:50:57PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > > >First, Barney was correct: using "ping -f" will run into the ICMP > > >response limitation. Try using "ping -i 0.01 _hostname_", instead, > > >and you may find out that you don't have a problem with packet loss at > > >all at this lower speed. > > > > I wish I had a FreeBSD box to check this on, but from an OS X G5 to an > > Athlon WinXP box (both at 100% CPU from distribfolding client: > > which is completely irrelevant because your winxp machine doesn't have > the aforementioned icmp response limiter. Can a brothah get a ping "as fast as we can get responses back" (like Juniper's ping rapid) around here? -- Richard A Steenbergen http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)