Subject: Re: Ping delays
From: Richard McLaren (richard_mclaren2@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 12:11:07 MDT
John:
I had/have the same experience pinging a PowerMac 7200/90 (YDL 2.0)through a
NetGear router, though I can't offer an explanation.
Richard
>From: John Martellaro <marty104@conen.net>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Ping delays
>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:50:37 -0600
>
>With YDL 2.0 on a TiBook, I find that the delay in reporting the
>first packets is enormous. (Using /bin/ping -v). When pinging
>machines on the local network, nothing happens for a long time, and I
>thought that ping wasn't even working at first. Eventually, after 30
>sec or so, I start seeing the ping results. Early delay times (time
>= x.xx) are in the seconds range. Later it settles down, and the
>numbers drop into the microseconds, as expected. Has anyone else see
>this?
>
>(Behavior on Mac OS X is perfectly normal.)
>
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