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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:16:51 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question about ping(8)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004250215350.63518-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <39046FCE.143CAFC0@intercom.com>

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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jason J. Horton wrote:

> left a ping running all weekend, came back Monday to get this.
> 
> 64 bytes from 10.10.10.2: icmp_seq=60393 ttl=255 time=0.544 ms
> ^C
> --- 10.10.10.2 ping statistics ---
> 322538 packets transmitted, 322538 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.470/0.565/30.742/0.234 ms
> 
> Any reason the ping stopped logging at 322538 packets?

322538 - 60393 = 2^18 + 1

The signifigance of that is left up to the reader...:-) I'm sure an
examination of the source will explain all.

Andrew



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