misc/95713: Ping is not scalable.

Thu Apr 13 23:30:23 UTC 2006

The following reply was made to PR bin/95713; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>
To: Torsten Frost <frost at natet.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/95713: Ping is not scalable.
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:27:29 +1000

 On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:34:15PM +0000, Torsten Frost wrote:
 > Sending eight million pings i guess. 

 8 million pings, one per second, that's 92 days...

 I think you should tell what you want to achieve on freebsd-net or
 freebsd-questions, the answer you (might) get there will be much
 better than filing a PR without any relevant information.

 Edwin

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