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From: "Jesse Gordon" <jesseg@nikola.com>
To: "Jesse Gordon" <jesseg@nikola.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ICMP Ping being lost between kernel and the ping program. (Solved!)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:35:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b501c5ebbe$dafc7960$5e00800a@printserver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 009401c5eaeb$9a77be00$5e00800a@printserver

----- Original Message ----- 
"Jesse Gordon" <jesseg@nikola.com> wrote:

>Subject: ICMP Ping being lost between kernel and the ping program.
>
> Greetings. This is my first post.
>
> I'm having a weird intermittent problem with ping.
>
> I'm pinging the WAN port of a cheap home DSL firewall (d-link di-604) and 
> sometimes the ping program fails to get a response,
> but if I run tcpdump I can see that the response is indeed coming back.
> .. snip ..
> -Jesse

Solved.

The Dlink firewalls were responding with stale ICMP Identifier when pinged a 
second time, and the ping program was ignoring the responses which had a 
stale Identifier.

The windows box always works because it always uses the same number for 
Identifier. Ugh.

Thanks!

-Jesse 



      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-12 21:16 [RESEND] [PATCH] drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c unsigned comparison Gabriel A. Devenyi
2005-11-16 19:52 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-11-16 20:23   ` ICMP Ping being lost between kernel and the ping program Jesse Gordon
2005-11-17 21:35     ` Jesse Gordon [this message]

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