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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:47:59 -0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Massive link lags in pppd
Message-ID:  <19991213204759.E373@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912132152350.3079-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>; from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:54:06PM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912132152350.3079-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>

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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
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