From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 23:10:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (mojave.lemis.com [192.109.197.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E58154F1 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:10:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA00531; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:47:59 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Dean Hollister Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Massive link lags in pppd Message-ID: <19991213204759.E373@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:54:06PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 13 December 1999 at 21:54:06 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote: > x-no-archive: yes > > Hiyall, > > Has anyone seen this behaviour anywhere before? Under FreeBSD > 2.2.8-STABLE, an idle pppd (2.3.5) link is returning 36.5 second ping > times! > > bash$ ping -c100 bentleydc > PING bentleydc.apana.org.au (203.11.114.177): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 203.11.114.177: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4959.627 ms > 64 bytes from 203.11.114.177: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=9459.665 ms > 64 bytes from 203.11.114.177: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=8519.265 ms Its the address you're pinging the other end of the link? If so, it's is indicative either of a high load or high error rates on the link. Note that you're also losing 30% of your packets. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message