> > You can scream all you want that "it isn't free software" but the fact
> > of the matter is that you all scream that and then go do your slides for
> > your Linux talks in PowerPoint.
>
> I think this is an unfair generalization.
Not really. In Linus's book he describes that his presentatio
> You can fix this by upping the socket buffer that ping asks for (look
> for setsockopt( ... SO_RCVBUF ...)) and then tuning the kernel to
> allow larger socket buffers. The file to fiddle with is
> /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max.
Currently it is set to 65535. I doubled it several times and each
1. When pinging a machine using kernel 2.2.19 I consistently get an 80%
packet loss when doing a ping -f with a packet size of 64590 or higher.
2. A "ping -f -s 64589" to a machine running kernel 2.2.19 results in 0%
packet loss. By incrementing the packetsize by one "ping -f -s 64590" or
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