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Date:      Thu, 25 Nov 1999 23:41:25 +0100
From:      "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: ping response times over ppp
Message-ID:  <19991125234125.A23366@bank-pedersen.dk>
In-Reply-To: <19991125173107.16398@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>; from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com on Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 05:31:07PM -0500
References:  <19991125230609.A23253@bank-pedersen.dk> <19991125173107.16398@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 05:31:07PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 November 1999 at 23:06:09 +0100, Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are doing some testing of some new network equipment, and I've
> > stumbled across the following:
> >
> >   64 bytes from 192.168.10.10: icmp_seq=22 ttl=253 time=210.361 ms
> >   64 bytes from 192.168.10.10: icmp_seq=23 ttl=253 time=210.392 ms
> >
> > All responsetimes equals n*10 + epsilon [ms].  I'm pretty sure we don't have
> > any queuing involved that could influence the results, so my question is
> > whether this is caused by timeresolution problems within either ping or
> > ppp; or I'm just plain lucky to hit n*10 every time?   :)
> 
> Sounds like it could be the other end.  What's there?  I seem to
> remember that System V STREAMS can sometimes do things like this.

It's a FreeBSD-STABLE as well:

FreeBSD freeze.wheel.dk 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #6: Fri Nov 19
22:03:19 CET 1999     root@freeze.wheel.dk:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEZE
i386

 - and it's just a few ethernets away - plus of course the ppp-link (see
below).

> BTW, for normal ping packets and 33.6 or 56 kb/s, these are *very*
> slow times.

Actually its ISDN, just not the B-channel  :-)

> Greg


/Niels Chr.

-- 
 Niels Christian Bank-Pedersen, NCB1-RIPE.
 Network Manager, Tele Danmark NET, IP-section.

 "Hey, are any of you guys out there actually *using* RFC 2549?"


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