[Gllug] 4/5 pings fail

Murray gllug at minty.org
Mon Mar 3 20:18:55 UTC 2003


Bingo.

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echoreply_rate

was 500.  Successively decreasing this by 100 caused fewer and fewer
timeouts, until at 100, virually every ping succeeded.

many thanks :)

murray.

ps. must dig around in /proc/sys when I get some time to play...looks
interesting...

> From: Mr Jean Messerlin
>
> Rate limiting on icmp is also set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_*_rate
> (or something like that).



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