Fundamentals: what packets are dropped by the kernel?

And why?

Doug.

Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> And why?

Could you be vaguer?

> And why?

The kernel drops packets when the contents appear inappropriate to him.
Of course what is "inappropriate" is in the eye of the beholder, so not
knowing Linus's political preferences, I don't know if it's leaning
towards pro-foxnews or pro-stalin or both.


Stefan


PS: More seriously, the kernel drops packets when it can't keep up.
So the reason is "can't keep up because the streams of packets go
too fast compared to the rate at which the applications can process
them". As for which packets are dropped, I don't know what
heuristic uses Linux to select which ones to drop. I'd expect it
doesn't really choose consciously: when there's no space in the
incoming buffer it just drops the incoming pakets.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:56:35 +1100, Doug Laidlaw <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>And why?

>Doug.

and what is google?

AZ Nomad wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:56:35 +1100, Doug Laidlaw <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>> And why?
>
>> Doug.
>
> and what is google?

a google is a member of a class of certain mathematical numbers

On Nov 26, 5:35 am, Spoon <root@localhost> wrote:

> Doug Laidlaw wrote:

> > And why?

> Could you be vaguer?

And how?

DS

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IIRC, you mean googol[1], not google.

References:
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

HTH
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> IIRC, you mean googol[1], not google.
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> References:
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> HTH
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"Far be it from me to answer a simple question. Rather, let me change the
question. And my stupidity is so popular that it needs to be protected by
GPG."

Doug.

Spoon wrote:

> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>
>> And why?
>
> Could you be vaguer?

Fair comment. I just thought that it looked better than stopping at the
Subject: header. Actually, Stefan answers both halves.

Doug.
--
Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for your
lifetime.
-- Pinched from another's sig. May not be accurate, but sounds good.

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> | a google is a member of a class of certain mathematical numbers
>
> IIRC, you mean googol[1], not google.
>
> References:
> [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
>
> HTH
> - --
> Ashish Shukla आशीष श�क�ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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yes you're right