On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:52:46AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > That's probably because of the lazy ICMP socket locking used for the > ICMP socket. When an ICMP is already in process the next ICMP triggered > from a softirq (e.g. ECHO-REQUEST) is dropped > (see net/ipv4/icmp_xmit_lock_bh()) Hmm...and this is considered desired behavior? It seems like an odd way of handling packets intended to test latency and reliability. :) This is most likely the cause, but I will test tomorrow to confirm. Thanks, Simon- [ Simon Kirby ][ Network Operations ] [ sim@netnation.com ][ NetNation Communications ] [ Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. ] - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
