Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 16:58:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ping times over PPP link to Linux box Message-ID: <199506090728.QAA05323@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199506090619.BAA00509@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jun 9, 95 01:19:27 am
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Mike Pritchard stands accused of saying: > I think that the Linux box is probably capable of providing better response, > since I've logged into the machine and pinged various sites around the > country and seen ping times as low as 60ms. Pings to freebsd.org avg 90ms > right now. My provider is running Linux 1.2.8. Oooh envy. (>200ms here 8( ) > I would also be interested in knowing what kind of ping times anyone > else connecting via PPP from a FreeBSD box to a Linux box gets. > Are my results atypical? Not noticeably - our local amateur network (SA-APANA, fwiw) restructured recently, and a number of the PA sites clubbed together and funded a FBSD 2.0 system. Unfortunately this had reliability problems (not the least being the too-many-cooks), and was replaced with a reasonably current Linux system. I won't spew too much about this system, except to say that it seems to stay up for a reasonable amount of time, but it _was_ observed that its ping response times were considerably worse (~250-300ms) than either the 2.0 box (~180-200) or the annexes (~150). Throughput seems OK, although there are other issues there as well. (16450, IDE, should say it all) > Mike Pritchard Another datapoint, at least. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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