From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 9:12: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B24B337B72F for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 983 invoked by uid 211); 24 Apr 2000 16:11:37 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:41:37 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Jason J. Horton" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about ping(8) Message-ID: <20000424214137.A951@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <39046FCE.143CAFC0@intercom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39046FCE.143CAFC0@intercom.com>; from jason@intercom.com on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:01:18PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > left a ping running all weekend, came back Monday to get this. > > 64 bytes from 10.10.10.2: icmp_seq=60393 ttl=255 time=0.544 ms > ^C > --- 10.10.10.2 ping statistics --- > 322538 packets transmitted, 322538 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.470/0.565/30.742/0.234 ms > > Any reason the ping stopped logging at 322538 packets? Maybe because you hit ^C? :-) 322538 packets at the default 1 packet per second works out to 89.5 hours, or 3 days 17.5 hours. Seems consistent with your "all weekend" if it was a long weekend. Any reason why you did this? Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message