At 2:31 AM +0200 7/4/01, Jesper Skriver wrote:
>You can't use that for measurement, on many router products the
>process of replying to ICMP echo's (and generating other ICMP
>messages) is a VERY low priority task, so if it's CPU is loaded
>with other tasks, you will see a excessive latency in ping's to
>that router, but you will probably see a much more normal delay to
>a host behind it.
Valid point - pinging the other end of my gateway is giving average
responses in the 65ms range, pinging the core router behind it
returns averages of 55ms.
Still high, though.
Bryan
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