[coLinux-users] network ping abnormality

[Andreas <ge...@gm...>]

hi,
i'm using colinux 0.6.1 with bridged networking on a w2k host. when pinging
colinux from a remote machine, i got the following, confusing timings:

(behold the monotonous growing and then jumping back latency)

64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.9 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=2.3 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=3.7 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=5.2 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=6.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=7.9 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=9.4 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.7 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=2.0 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=3.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=4.9 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=6.4 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=7.7 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=9.2 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=1.9 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=3.4 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=20 ttl=64 time=4.7 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=6.2 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=22 ttl=64 time=7.6 ms
64 bytes from 172.17.0.2: icmp_seq=23 ttl=64 time=9.1 ms

and so on... any clue, what might cause this strange behavior?

regards,
andreas