Bug 11700

Summary:	Problems with ping
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	timnshan
Component:	iputils	Assignee:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2
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Description timnshan 2000-05-26 22:34:53 UTC

There seems to be a problem with the ping program in some situations. In
our case, some techs at Cisco were setting up 6.2 on some older Dell
Optiplex machines and were getting very high packet loss and slow responses
when pinging other machines on the network. The install was a Custom
install, selecting the Everything option. The same install was done on 3
machines and all of them had the same problem. I found these newsgroups
posts that describe the exact same symptoms.

http://x68.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=608698334&search=thread&CONTEXT=959378404.1649999881&HIT_CONTEXT=959362605.1230176261&HIT_NUM=23&hitnum=0

http://x59.deja.com/threadmsg_ct.xp?AN=624993945.1&mhitnum=0&CONTEXT=959378604.931069999

At first it looked like a networking problem but we checked all the
equipment in a variety of ways and then tried testing other protocols like
telnet, ftp and http and discovered they all worked perfectly. We then
copied ping from another machine (Mandrake 7) and put it on the troubled
machines. This new ping worked fine.
For what it's worth, I also have a self-built machine at home with 6.2 and
ping seems to work fine. I did a custom install on that machine but didn't
select everything.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2000-06-14 17:21:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10436 ***

Comment 2 yann 2000-06-22 15:01:19 UTC

I had the same problem with a RH6.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400. It's a real RedHat
6.2 (v.FR), not the one made by DELL.

The ping diplay nothing, but when I take the /bin/ping on a RedHat 6.1 it work
fine.

With a sniffer (ethereal) I can see that echo request and echo reply are ok on
the network (with the ping of the RH6.2). Perhaps it's just a display problem or
something like that.