Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:57:24 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com Subject: Re: Is this Ping of Death for real? Message-ID: <96Dec7.175725pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Dec 96 10:43:18 PST." <m0vWRiZ-0008taC@agora.rdrop.com>
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In message <m0vWRiZ-0008taC@agora.rdrop.com> you write: >I beg to differ. One ping won't do it, but I set up a "ping -c 10000" and >let it run for a while, and FreeBSD 2.<mumble, a system at work> started >rebooting every 5 minutes or so. I just did 10,000 65538-byte packets to streamer.freebsd.org, with no ill effects. Then I did 10,000 32770-byte packets, since 2.1.6 has signed length fields, and also saw nothing amiss. What kind of ethernet card did your machine at work have? It may have been a bug in the driver. Bill ==> testping2.out <== total: 10000 ok, 0 bad ==> testping2.out-small <== total: 10000 ok, 0 bad
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