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Re: An amusing test

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David S. Miller)
Fri May 24 15:32:24 1996

Date: 	Fri, 24 May 1996 01:37:03 -0400
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@caip.rutgers.edu>
To: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru
CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <199605231846.WAA04949@dee.inr.ac.ru>
	(inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru)

   From: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
   Date: 	23 May 1996 22:33:47 +0400

   Paul Gortmaker (gpg109@rsphy6.anu.EDU.AU) wrote:

   : Here is an interesting little test to run on current kernels. Run it as
   : a normal user and watch the amusement.

   "amusement": is it good or bad? :-)

Well, besides flooding the net with arp requests for a minute or so it
produces "sock destroy delayed"'s out the wazoo unless every ip on
your subnet has a machine talking on it which is unusual ;-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@caip.rutgers.edu


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