Here's a puzzler.
I just put FreeBSD 8.1 up on an old (but good) 500 MHz Celeron with
half a gig of RAM. Interfaces are classic xl (3Com) and dc (DEC
tulip). Works quite nicely except for one quirk: ping times that
ought to be positive (no more than 200 ms worst case) are coming
out negative!
More information regarding the odd behavior I'm seeing. Turns out
that packets do not even need to leave the machine for it to
report large negative ping times, on the order of more than half
a second. (See below.) Clearly something is odd about timekeeping
in this system (SiS motherboard chipset,
On Monday, September 12, 2011 5:53:39 pm Brett Glass wrote:
> More information regarding the odd behavior I'm seeing. Turns out
> that packets do not even need to leave the machine for it to
> report large negative ping times, on the order of more than half
> a second. (See below.) Clearly somethin
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