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From: Torsten Frost <frost@natet.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Ping is not scalable. 
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>Number:         95713
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ping(1) is not scalable.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 13 21:40:12 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jul 30 09:36:10 GMT 2007
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jul 30 09:36:10 GMT 2007
>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:

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Torsten Frost <frost@natet.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/95713: Ping is not scalable.
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:27:29 +1000

 On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:34:15PM +0000, Torsten Frost wrote:
 > Sending eight million pings i guess. 
 
 8 million pings, one per second, that's 92 days...
 
 I think you should tell what you want to achieve on freebsd-net or
 freebsd-questions, the answer you (might) get there will be much
 better than filing a PR without any relevant information.
 
 Edwin
 
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 Edwin Groothuis      |            Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org
 edwin@mavetju.org    |          Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: glebius 
State-Changed-When: Wed Apr 19 11:01:32 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Please provide less emotional and more technical information 
regarding the problem with ping(8). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95713 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 30 09:35:40 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout (> 1 year). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95713 
>Unformatted:
