Re: udp packet storms

[ccshag () everest cclabs missouri edu (Paul 'Shag' Walmsley)]

On Tue, 1 Nov 1994, anthony baxter wrote:

> Everything I can get my hands on here (Ultrix, SunOS, OSF/1, Irix 5, Solaris)
> has this bug. Whee.
>
>
> Besides, you get really funky results from ping:
> 3 packets transmitted, 52 packets received, -1633% packet loss

All of our Unix systems here respond to broadcast pings (IRIX, SunOS 4, 
NeXTStep 3.2) ... but I believe that's by design, not by accident.   


- Paul "Shag" Walmsley <ccshag () everest cclabs missouri edu>
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