[LUNA] [OT] quickie ....

[Bob Nance]

If you drop pings to the other side it might be a dud. A lot of inexpensive routers deliberately lower the importance of ping responses since they have so little horsepower. Do a ping -c 10000 and let it run to some well maintained public site and base your decision on the percentage. If you lose more than 2-3% it's probably your router. 

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 Bob Nance
 Novation Systems
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> On Jul 11, 2015, at 9:57 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
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> Very well, but it also drops packets when I 'ping -c 10 <router>', drops 2-6 of those, only 1 per sec. .... I was flood-pinging to amplify/verify/stress-test ....
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> It has 4 LAN ports, 3 more than I need/want, but it would be tough to rig up to use other LAN ports, also a lot of work over a $25.00 device.I just bought it last week, if its a dud, I can get refund, that was mainly why I was asking ....
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>> On 07/11/15 17:45, Bob Nance wrote:
>> Flood Ping is as sending packets as fast as you can create them. Assuming that you are running a modern processor and OS, you might be sending tens of thousands of  pings  every second. Your poor router is likely running a single-core, sub-gigahertz processor and can't keep up to reply.
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>> It's also possible that your router is deliberately ignoring the flood to avoid a DoS. See if you can ping get traffic through it during your flood through another Ethernet portion the router. If you don't have another port, then throw it away and but one that does:)
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>> ---
>>  Bob Nance
>>  Novation Systems
>>  256-534-4620
>>  (iPhone-flavored)
>> 
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>>> >On Jul 11, 2015, at 5:06 PM, William A. Mahaffey III<wam at hiwaay.net>  wrote:
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>>> >.... if I flood-ping my router (LAN gateway, goes to cable-modem) & get lots of dropped packets, bad router ? TIA & have a nice weekend ....
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>>> >
>>> >-- >
>>> >    William A. Mahaffey III
>>> >
>>> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
>>> >    "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
>>> >     ever devised by man."
>>> >                           -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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