>Ok so here's the problem if I do a 'hping -c 10000 -i u100 -1 xx.xx.xx.xx' I

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>generate a rather unimpressive 50pps. Issuing the same command on a gentoo box

>(sorry) I get 9000+ pps.

time sudo ping -f ping

PING ping.oat.com (198.5.5.10): 56 data bytes

--- ping.oat.com ping statistics ---

12180 packets transmitted, 12180 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.083/0.141/8.073/0.132 ms

0.0u 0.6s 0:02.75 24.3% 0+0k 0+1io 0pf+0w
This is on a very wimpy box (< 2G).  Maybe your network interface

is no good? If it's an ne2000 type, it won't work worth used tissue paper.
   geoff steckel