On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:00:48PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Are you in a position to be able to run 'ping -f [-s 1400]' from and to
> it with a known to be faster machine at some time when neither its
> operation nor the network's would be adversely affected by such an
> action?


To:

cosinus# ping -f cosinus
PING cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de (131.220.4.181): 56 data bytes
.^C

----cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de PING Statistics----
340782 packets transmitted, 340782 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.126/0.134/148.066/0.363 ms
  6864.2 packets/sec sent,  6864.2 packets/sec received


sinus# ping -s 1400 -f cosinus
PING cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de (131.220.4.181): 1400 data bytes
^C

----cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de PING Statistics----
113506 packets transmitted, 113506 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.173/0.181/2.881/0.025 ms
  4415.3 packets/sec sent,  4415.3 packets/sec received

From:
sinus# ping -f cosinus
PING cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de (131.220.4.181): 56 data bytes
.....^C

----cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de PING Statistics----
13290 packets transmitted, 13286 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.129/1.294/140.246/2.029 ms
  727.1 packets/sec sent,  726.8 packets/sec received

sinus# ping -s 1400 !*
ping -s 1400 -f cosinus
PING cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de (131.220.4.181): 1400 data bytes
..^C

----cosinus.cs.uni-bonn.de PING Statistics----
3330 packets transmitted, 3328 packets received, 0.1% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 6.516/6.722/84.270/1.481 ms
  143.3 packets/sec sent,  143.3 packets/sec received


It looks to me as if it sometimes would hang for 1 or 2 seconds.

Hm.
	-is


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