From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 11 20:58:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA11603 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA11598 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 20:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA24460; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:28:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704120358.NAA24460@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: dropped packet on de0 In-Reply-To: <19970411030808.40430@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Apr 11, 97 03:08:08 am" To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:28:20 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.res.ray.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[