Warning: time of day goes back, taking countermeasures.(?)

Jake Jake at callatg.com
Sun Nov 4 20:33:48 PST 2001


> It's nothing to worry about. As a matter of fact, you'll notice that this
> happens when you run ping on localhost. I can't remember what the problem
is
> but it has something to do with a small bug in the kernel dealing with
> timestamp comparisions. I have all my systems syncing with a time server
> daily and still run into the problem. You can make this message disappear
by
> using '-U' in your ping command. This will disable some of the newer
> features of ping in the newer kernel which, in turn, automagically fixes
the
> problem
>
>   ping -U 10.0.0.23

Thanks!

Thats awesome.

I am pretty happy that I just got my 802.11 network up and running with my
laptop in linux.
So far I have gotten it to work with win2k and redhat 7.2.

Its nice to be able to do all sorts of fun stuff from a park.

I hope someday soon this will be the norm for citys.

-
Jake




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