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Date:      Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:28:20 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Gregory_D_Moncreaff@ccmail.res.ray.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dropped packet on de0
Message-ID:  <199704120358.NAA24460@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19970411030808.40430@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "Apr 11, 97 03:08:08 am"

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John-Mark Gurney stands accused of saying:
> Michael Smith scribbled this message on Apr 11:
> > ping -f only sends at 100 packets/second; try 'ping -l 100000' to get
> > ping to really push, or use one of the TCP throughput testing programs
> > in the ports collection.
> 
> not acording to the man page:
>      -f      Flood ping.  Outputs packets as fast as they come back or one
>              hundred times per second, whichever is more.  For every

Sorry, right answer on my part, but wrong logic.  Ping -f waits for an
answer to each packet before it sends the next one, to a maximum of
10ms, so it will never fill the output queue.  Ping -l on the other
hand just sends like crazy.

>   John-Mark

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