Ping results are sometimes wrong

Brett Glass brett at lariat.org
Sat May 17 11:31:16 PDT 2003


> You could have the same problem when pinging through a router that
> doesn't have the MAC address of the target, and ping doesn't have a way
> to check that.  It would be simpler to just ignore the first sample when
> calculating the statistics.

Or just throw away one ping altogether. Perhaps this is something that
could be added to the program.

--Brett


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