On 0, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <ke6sls@cox.net> wrote: [snip] > I have been following the thread with interest. I decided to do a test my > LAN here while my bride was playing a game on her computer. I started a ping > - -f session on her box with my Linux laptop, then started another one from my > Linux desktop box. I didn't realize it would hamper her computer, but the > computer actually stopped responding to her simple Mahjongg game! Her box is > a 550MHz AMD k6 with 256Mb of RAM. It really seems odd. I can do the same > thing to the old Linux gateway/firewall p75 with 32Mb RAM without any > noticeable slow down. > > Guess it's time to try it on a win-xp box. . . . <shrug> Yeah, we used to do this to other boxes on our residential college network. For some reason win9x (don't know about NT/2000 etc) can't handle a ping flood and just slows down until the thing stops responding. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide Classifications of inanimate objects: Those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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