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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: Ping results are sometimes wrong
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> 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.

--Brett