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To: Jeffrey Barber <jab@rock.anchorage.net>
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Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:38:33 -0800."
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:34:05 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example:
>
>bash$ ping localhost
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.356 ms
>
>On my Linux box I get a ping response of:
>
>PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms
>
>Big difference here. Please shed some light on this for me.
>
>TIA

Last I checked, .356ms was faster than 1.1ms.  I think you missed
the decimal point.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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