Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:30:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Alejandro Galindo <agalindo@servidor.exsocom.com.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: round-trip betwen my server and a client modem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112222844.22079Y-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19980110011338.008517e8@exsocom.com.mx>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Alejandro Galindo wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 2.2.5 with pppd 2.2 server installed, some people
> access internet accross my server, last night i use the ping command for
> verify the comunication between my server and the other side (the modem of
> some people) the result was next: (pppc00 is the interface assigned to
> /dev/ttyc00)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> # ping pppc00.exsocom.com.mx
>
> PING pppc00.exsocom.com.mx (200.34.46.150): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 200.34.46.150: icmp_seq=0 ttl=32 time=246.289 ms
> 64 bytes from 200.34.46.150: icmp_seq=1 ttl=32 time=228.230 ms
> 64 bytes from 200.34.46.150: icmp_seq=2 ttl=32 time=262.116 ms
> 64 bytes from 200.34.46.150: icmp_seq=3 ttl=32 time=226.231 ms
> 64 bytes from 200.34.46.150: icmp_seq=4 ttl=32 time=227.824 ms
> 64 bytes from 200.34.46.150: icmp_seq=5 ttl=32 time=216.208 ms
> 64 bytes from 200.34.46.150: icmp_seq=6 ttl=32 time=236.875 ms
> ^C
> --- pppc00.exsocom.com.mx ping statistics ---
> 7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 216.208/234.825/262.116/14.109 ms
^^^^^^^
> the average time is 234.825 ms
Really, you don't say. I believe ping told you that already :-)
> is this normal? and why is slowly?
Because it's dialup. It's slow by definition.
> if i ping to a pc conected to my LAN the average time is 0.937 ms and this
> is ok.
And that is Ethernet for you.
Now you know why Ethernet wired student housing is so popular -- once you
have Ethernet, you can never go back to modems. :-)
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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