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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2388 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:57:10 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: flood ping causes "foom" Date: 28 Feb 1993 17:26:40 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 39 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mqskgINNqjk@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <CGD.93Feb27205846@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <CGD.93Feb27205846@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > > i've got a 486-50 and a 386-20 at home connected with a small ethernet... > (both machines have WD8003 ethernet cards...) > > saying: > ping -vfs 1024 126.8 > > will quickly (i.e. within 1000 packets transmitted) and consistently > (as in, you do that 'ping' and the following will _always_ happen) > reboot the machine. Are you sure your ethernet driver isn't leaking memory? I tried this on both of my machines, a 386DX-20 with a NE2000, and a 486DX-25 with a HP27250. I stopped them because I was getting bored. root@trinity [1]; ping -vfs 1024 trinity PING trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (128.52.46.237): 1024 data bytes . --- trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu ping statistics --- 4631 packets transmitted, 4631 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0/10/50 ms root@trinity [1]; root@duality [1]; ping -vfs 1024 duality PING duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (18.43.0.236): 1024 data bytes . --- duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu ping statistics --- 6765 packets transmitted, 6764 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0/5/99 ms root@duality [1]; -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!