suffering from poor network performance...

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:32:32PM -0800, Bill Fumerola wrote:
> [ this isn't really -net material ]
> 
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:50:57PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> 
> > >First, Barney was correct: using "ping -f" will run into the ICMP 
> > >response limitation.  Try using "ping -i 0.01 _hostname_", instead, 
> > >and you may find out that you don't have a problem with packet loss at 
> > >all at this lower speed.
> > 
> > I wish I had a FreeBSD box to check this on, but from an OS X G5 to an 
> > Athlon WinXP box (both at 100% CPU from distribfolding client:
> 
> which is completely irrelevant because your winxp machine doesn't have
> the aforementioned icmp response limiter.

Can a brothah get a ping "as fast as we can get responses back" (like
Juniper's ping rapid) around here?

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