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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Ping times over PPP link to Linux box
To: mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 16:58:36 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199506090619.BAA00509@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jun 9, 95 01:19:27 am
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Mike Pritchard stands accused of saying:
> I think that the Linux box is probably capable of providing better response, 
> since I've logged into the machine and pinged various sites around the
> country and seen ping times as low as 60ms.  Pings to freebsd.org avg 90ms
> right now.  My provider is running Linux 1.2.8.

Oooh envy. (>200ms here 8( )

> I would also be interested in knowing what kind of ping times anyone 
> else connecting via PPP from a FreeBSD box to a Linux box gets.
> Are my results atypical?

Not noticeably - our local amateur network (SA-APANA, fwiw) restructured
recently, and a number of the PA sites clubbed together and funded
a FBSD 2.0 system.  Unfortunately this had reliability problems
(not the least being the too-many-cooks), and was replaced with a 
reasonably current Linux system.  

I won't spew too much about this system, except to say that it seems 
to stay up for a reasonable amount of time, but it _was_ observed
that its ping response times were considerably worse (~250-300ms)
than either the 2.0 box (~180-200) or the annexes (~150).

Throughput seems OK, although there are other issues there as well.
(16450, IDE, should say it all)

> Mike Pritchard

Another datapoint, at least.

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