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To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
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Subject: Re: Is this Ping of Death for real? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Dec 96 10:43:18 PST."
             <m0vWRiZ-0008taC@agora.rdrop.com> 
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:57:24 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.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