On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 07:53 +0200, Erwin Authried wrote:
> Am Montag, den 22.09.2008, 17:28 -0600 schrieb Matt Waddel:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've encountered an interesting problem with ping (both
> > busybox and the regular ping) on the Coldfire platforms.
> > After typing <control c> to end ping the 1st time,
> > running ping the 2nd time only lets one packet get
> > through.  Ping seems to hang after the first packet.
> > 
> > So the following sequence:
> > 
> > # ping 192.168.1.100
> > PING 192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100): 56 data bytes
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=10.0 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
> > ^C
> > --- 192.168.1.100 ping statistics ---
> > 7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max = 0.0/1.4/10.0 ms
> > 
> > # ping 192.168.1.100
> > PING 192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100): 56 data bytes
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
> > <<<<< wait a long time where nothing happens >>>>>
> > ^C
> > 
> > --- 192.168.1.100 ping statistics ---
> > 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
> > round-trip min/avg/max = 0.0/0.0/0.0 ms
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > If you set a limit to the number of ping packets using the
> > command: ping -c 5 <ip addr> everything works fine - every
> > time.  (As long as you don't type <control c>.)
> > 
> > Obviously the <control c> is leaving the ping/icmp system
> > in a bad state somewhere.  I'm using the 2.6.26 kernel, but
> > I also saw the problem on the 2.6.23 kernel.  Do any other
> > platforms have this problem?  Any ideas where to start
> > looking?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Matt
> 
> Hi,
> it seems that something is wrong with the signal handling in the ping
> application. There should be a SIGALRM that triggers the next ping (at
> least in the standalone ping). You should try to figure out if SIGALRM
> is is working at all after you interrupt the application with ^C.
> 

Not sure if it's related but a long time ago there was a patch needed to
prevent a problem with register overwrite with some gcc versions.  The
symptoms were the same:

http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2005-November/035683.html

If you look at the thread listing, there's some more around this time.

Regards, Stuart



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