What is kind of odd here though is you would expect response times to be
almost identical if they are pinging from the same interfaces to the same
destination, and using the same size packets.
----- Original Message -----
From: ElephantChild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mike Canfield/Tampa/Contr/AT&T/IJV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: extended ping and response times
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Mike Canfield/Tampa/Contr/AT&T/IJV wrote:
>
> > When using the standard 100-byte ping to assess response times, I get:
> >
> > Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 34.x.x.x, timeout is 2 seconds:
> > !!!!!
> > Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 240/247/264
ms
> >
> > But when using extended ping, and loading the ping packets to 1500-bytes
> > w/extended commands, I get:
> >
> > Sending 25, 1500-byte ICMP Echos to 34.x.x.x, timeout is 2 seconds:
> > !..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> > Success rate is 92 percent (23/25), round-trip min/avg/max =
824/1081/1704
> > ms
> >
> > My question is should I really see that big of a difference in responce
> > times, and what might be the causes?
>
> Hard to say without a network diagram, but my guess would be the time
> needed to push all the extra bytes through the network to the pinged
> address and back. Have you tried with intermediate sizes to see how
> transit time changes with size?
>
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