Messages in this thread | | | From | roque@di ... | Subject | Re: Bad in 1.3.76 | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:40:10 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com> writes:
Todd> On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Seth Goldberg wrote: >> In addition, the PPP in 1.3.76 still is not as good as that in >> win95 (i get a 167ms ping reply in 95 and a 190ms in linux)...
Todd> Ping time is in no way related to network proficiency. Ping Todd> time is in no way related to modem performance. Ping time Todd> is an inappropriate benchmark for contrasting different Todd> operating systems, as netcode designs might sacrifice Todd> greater latency for betteer over-all network effeciency. Todd> This is a valid design decision, and should not be Todd> denigrated by the simplistic use of an easily-measured (and Todd> fairly unimportant) statistic.
Also, if i'm not mistaken win95 ping uses 16 byte packets by default while Unix pings default to 56/64 bytes. This beeing true and the original poster as a better performance with Linux :-)
regards, Pedro.
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