Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 08:44:01 -0700 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Irritation regarding precision of ping(8)... Message-ID: <XFMail.20041102084401.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <05DE5D1C-2B30-11D9-8420-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org>
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On 31-Oct-2004 Sean Chittenden wrote: >>> This has long bugged me and tonight I finally snapped and had to do >>> something about it. Example output: >>> >>> 64 bytes from a.b.c.d: icmp_seq=935 ttl=126 time=33.824 ms >>> 64 bytes from a.b.c.d: icmp_seq=936 ttl=126 time=29.138 ms >>> 64 bytes from a.b.c.d: icmp_seq=937 ttl=126 time=28.262 ms >>> 64 bytes from a.b.c.d: icmp_seq=938 ttl=126 time=29.67 ms >>> 64 bytes from a.b.c.d: icmp_seq=939 ttl=126 time=30.963 ms >>> 64 bytes from a.b.c.d: icmp_seq=940 ttl=126 time=30.283 ms >>> 64 bytes from a.b.c.d: icmp_seq=941 ttl=126 time=29.455 ms >>> >>> The source of irritation being line seq 930. The time should be >>> 29.670 >>> since we are accurately measuring the precision to the thousands >>> place. >> >> I think you mean line seq 938. > > Yeah... my eyes are getting blurry... the 8 and 0 look similar at the > moment... probably a good sign I should stop and crash for the night. You really just meant 9.4e2, right? :-) John
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