Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: real kernel bloat | Date | Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:03:31 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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> When ping says 20% packet dropout you should be firing the network manager > or whoever refused to buy better links ;) 2.0 should be better than 1.2, but > above about 10% the error correction scheme used by a TCP (ack frames) > really breaks down badly. > > Alan
I do hope everbody knows using ping this way doesn't mean much unless you send say 100 packets or more. Heck, having 1 packet dropped out of a 5 packet test is 20%, but not an adequate statistic. Running a network for a full day or longer of normal activity, and finding 20% loss would be a cause for alarm.
I'm reminded of a Toronto Blue Jays rookie who stepped up to the plate recently - the announcers mentioned his "Godly batting average" of 1.000 (up to bat only once, and got a hit) :-) Meanwhile, their best seasoned hitters score under 0.400
And another thing, a busy remote server can ignore a ping.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net My home page http://www.redhat.com/~aem/ Linux Plug-and-Play Project Leader. See URL http://www.redhat.com/pnp/
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