Date: Mon, 14 Apr 97 11:10:41 EDT From: Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.res.ray.com To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: dropped packet on de0 Message-ID: <9703148610.AA861044057@ccmail.res.ray.com>
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on 2.1.0 ping -l loses most of its packets when the socketbuffer
gets filled up.
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Subject: Re: dropped packet on de0
Author: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> at SMTP
Date: 4/12/97 12:02 AM
John-Mark Gurney stands accused of saying:
> Michael Smith scribbled this message on Apr 11:
> > ping -f only sends at 100 packets/second; try 'ping -l 100000' to get
> > ping to really push, or use one of the TCP throughput testing programs
> > in the ports collection.
>
> not acording to the man page:
> -f Flood ping. Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one
> hundred times per second, whichever is more. For every
Sorry, right answer on my part, but wrong logic. Ping -f waits for an
answer to each packet before it sends the next one, to a maximum of
10ms, so it will never fill the output queue. Ping -l on the other
hand just sends like crazy.
> John-Mark
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