Re: Ping - what the hell ?

["Ken Seefried" <ken@seefried.com>]

I think that you can get this if you have an MP kernel compiled without 
"Enhanced Real Time Clock" support.  The default clock driver apparently 
isn't MP-safe. 

Ken Seefried, CISSP 

Przemyslaw Wegrzyn writes: 

> Look at this: 
>
> czajnik@earth:~$ ping 156.17.209.1
> PING 156.17.209.1 (156.17.209.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 156.17.209.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=5427.7 ms
> 64 bytes from 156.17.209.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=23.2 ms
> 64 bytes from 156.17.209.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=429492829.5 ms
> 						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 64 bytes from 156.17.209.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=429492907.1 ms
> 64 bytes from 156.17.209.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=247 time=16.5 ms
> 64 bytes from 156.17.209.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=247 time=21.4 ms 
>
> What the hell can it be ?!? Every ping comes back in few milisecounds... 
>
> We've recently added second CPU to this machine, can it (failed CPU) be
> the reason ? Overall stability is good... 
>
> -=Czaj-nick=-