Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 21:27:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Leonard <leonardc9@usa.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP Filters and Source Quench? Message-ID: <199706240327.VAA03358@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970619235208.0079e800@pop.slip.net> References: <3.0.1.32.19970619235208.0079e800@pop.slip.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Leonard Chung <Leonardc9@usa.net> asks:
> Also, does anybody know what a source quench is? Each time I ping one of
> my Macs I get a message saying "source quench" and ping reports that of 56
> bytes sent, 94 were returned. Any ideas?
Funny you should ask that; I had to look it up just two days ago for one
of the engineers at work. He was working on an ethernet driver for Macs
and his test Mac was source-quenching large ping requests. Source
quench means the target system does not have enough resources, typically
network buffers, to respond to the request. I'd give you a page
reference in _TCP/IP Illustrated_ but my copies are at work. Look up
"source quence" in the index, that's how I found it.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199706240327.VAA03358>