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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:32:26PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> True. But the first ping is, in most cases, not going to be 
> representative. So, it pays to throw it away if you're compiling 
> statistics of any sort.

Fine idea for your own use.  For the rest of us, let's abide by
POLA and not change behavior which is by now decades old and
sometimes provides a bit of useful info, namely the arp time.

brettsping() { ping -q -c 1 ${$#}; ping $*; }

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