From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 23 21:28:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA21252 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 21:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21203 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 21:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA03358; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 21:27:32 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 21:27:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199706240327.VAA03358@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Leonard CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP Filters and Source Quench? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970619235208.0079e800@pop.slip.net> References: <3.0.1.32.19970619235208.0079e800@pop.slip.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Leonard Chung 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