Re: Ping results are sometimes wrong

From: Lars Eggert (larse_at_ISI.EDU)
Date: 05/17/03

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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

    Brett Glass wrote:

    >>You could have the same problem when pinging through a router that
    >>doesn't have the MAC address of the target, and ping doesn't have a way
    >>to check that. It would be simpler to just ignore the first sample when
    >>calculating the statistics.
    >
    > Or just throw away one ping altogether. Perhaps this is something that
    > could be added to the program.

    Various link layers have different characteristics. Trying to optimize
    the averaging algorithm based on the specific behavior of one particular
    link layer is probably not useful for a network layer tool like ping.

    If you are pinging in the LAN where this overhead matters, you might
    consider using arping from ports instead.

    Lars 

    -- 
Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>           USC Information Sciences Institute

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