misc/95713: Ping is not scalable.

Torsten Frost frost at natet.org
Thu Apr 13 21:40:14 UTC 2006


>Number:         95713
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Ping is not scalable.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 13 21:40:12 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Torsten Frost
>Release:        6.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD lafiel.natet.org 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 11 20:29:38
>Description:
After spending a painstakingly long time of constant pinging the final result i 
so dearly sought was all garbled. 

Shy of eight million pings with no additional switches and four months spent the
conclusion of it all is that our ping implementation(i assume) is not up to snuff and suffer from overflows. 
>How-To-Repeat:
Sending eight million pings i guess. 
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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