-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Barclay, Daniel wrote:
> ghe wrote: > ...> I have a script pinging my ISP (details below) and I don't understand >> the results. Some output: >> >>> 2391 Thu Feb 26 01:14:39 2009 -- 5 packets, time 45ms == max rtt: >>> 351.654 ms >>> 2392 Thu Feb 26 01:14:45 2009 -- 5 packets, time 46ms == max rtt: >>> 344.855 ms > ... > >> What I don't understand is how the maximum round trip time can be 350 ms >> when it takes only 50 ms for the test. Can anyone explain this? > > I don't know, but my first guess is that that maximum is the maximum > during the current ping run. Yes, that's what I figured. > My second is that the first time is an > average. I don't think so. Here's a line from the same program (changed to show a little more data) on the same host, but with appletalk, squid, and mysql killed -- seems to be more in line with what the router sees so far: > 94 Thu Feb 26 11:57:00 2009 -- 5 packets, time 45ms == rtt > min/avg/max: 4.853/9.993/19.244 ms Maybe it's (average * packets) as integers? - -- Glenn English [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmm6KoACgkQ04yQfZbbTLZJwwCgpkkkug3dQsIvrYmVwcqzMdn4 g58An13EYXTEu96dwpRGl3YUKFU1OcBn =Qq5/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
