From: Simon B. <si...@ci...> - 2001-06-06 05:28:25
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Hiya Jeff On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Jeff Dike wrote: > si...@ci... said: > > There seems to be less pings sent in the same five minute(ish) period. > > Is this expected behaviour? > > Different pings have different default intervals. My slackware fs pings every > second, while my debian fs does it about every 3. You which? Why? Did you set that up specifically, coz I've got many debian boxes, and they all ping every second. > If you run 'ping -i <n>' from both sides, you should see similar > packet counts. not even close! From the usermode box, to the host: # time ping -i 1 192.168.10.1 --- 192.168.10.1 ping statistics --- 17 packets transmitted, 17 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.2/0.2/0.2 ms real 1m17.502s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s at the same time, from the host to the usermode instance: $ time ping -i 1 192.168.10.2 --- 192.168.10.2 ping statistics --- 79 packets transmitted, 79 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/1.2/1.6 ms real 1m18.133s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.010s So, about 1 every 4 seconds in one direction, 1 every 1 seconds the other. > > However, for long term sync of kernel and userspace packages, with > > sensible boot scripts, .deb would be useful. > > Good. Because that package is history as soon as I can work out how to build > a .deb :-) Excellent :-) Cheers Si |