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From: icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.EDU (Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: ping fails on  first attempt??
Message-ID: <8808111953.AA29704@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 88 19:53:04 GMT
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#>    I've noticed that ping also has some problems:  If you ping an
#> Apollo the first attempt will usually fail, but after that ping seems
#> to work.

At Montana State, we run 15 apollos connected to the campus Ethernet.  I've
never seen this "first attempt fail" ping problem on our nodes.  

BTW we're running 9.5.1, and TCP 3.0 w/patches

Jaye Mathisen
mathisen.sys_admin
icsu6000@mtsunix1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu (only one that works regularly)
icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (192.31.215.202).