an error running ping?

[technomage]

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ok, I am running a Quality Of Service script here to see if I am having 
problem. since my last service outage last week (cox.net) this started 
cropping up:
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04/29/03 23:26:39 0%
04/29/03 23:26:49 0%
04/29/03 23:26:58 0%
04/29/03 23:27:07 0%
WARNING: failed to install socket filter
: Protocol not available

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and here is the script I am using...

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#!/bin/sh

#QOS checker

while [ 1 ]; do
        echo `date "+%D %H:%M:%S"` `ping -c10 216.109.125.70 | grep loss | awk 
'{print $6}'`  
done
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now, I have changed nothing on my system, I get the same errors from other 
boxen inside the lan (and even from the iptables firewall box). is there 
something that cox has done that is preventing ping from working correctly?

a normal single ping to an address doesn't reveal this.

Technomage

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