On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:32:04PM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > Something I find a bit odd is that I can run ping -s 1472 -f > > <myTargetIp> > > without problems, but if i "jump start" the ping with "ping > > -s 800 -f <myTargetIp> -l 8" > > I start to loose packages. Ifconfig shows no errors for both cases. > > Do you get the same? > > > > Jocke > > Found this problem. It is the backoff/retry logic thats > causing very long TX delays. If I reduce "retlim"(retry limit) from > 15 to 6, the system recovers from a large packet ping storm. > > Is it a bad idea to reduce the retry limit?
I don't know, sorry. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
