BurnInTest network test failed only at Win7 64

[richard_gu]

Dear Sir,
My customer is using BurnInTest to do network test. With all default setting, which is only test 127.0.0.1 that protocol loopack only, and network test set to 100%, we can see some timeout errors happend for Win7 64bit. But using the same hardware platform, we can get pass result under Win7 32bit. I checked CPU and Memory usage during the test, and there may be no resource issues. Have you ever met this kind of issue? I will post test log message tomorrow. Thanks.

[richard_gu]

PS: My team member tried the same tests condition at his desktop platform, and failed for Win7 64 bit but passed for Win7 32 bit.

[Ian (PassMark)]

"Timeout waiting for packet" occurs when BurnInTest sends an ICMP packet with verifiable payload (ping like) to the destination address specified in Preferences->Network and the echo response is not received within the timeout period specified in Preferences->Network.
A Standard network duty cycle setting of 100% means that the system will attempt to send ICMP packets as fast as possible. A duty cycle of 1 to 99 will slow the sending of packets by inserting small delays. When the duty cycle setting is 100%, it is not uncommon for a system to lose packets (they can be discarded at the network layer).

You could try increasing the timeout period specified in Preferences->Network.

Also, we recommend using an external Network address in preferences as this will test the physcial network port, where-as the internal loopback won't.