[plug] Ping Times

[Christian]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:00:39PM +0800, Justin wrote:
 
> I have a Debian box that Masqs for a small windows network - using 2.2.17
> When i ping an outside address from a W2k box on the internal network, the 
> ping i get is smaller than the ping i get on the linux box - consistently 
> by about 10ms (not huge i know).
> If you have an idea or are interested in any slight way, then here are some 
> numbers (down a little).. Otherwise enjoy the rest of you emails.

I don't think ping times are all that precise.  I've seen people give
ping times for a Windows 9x box and a Linux box on the same network and
the Windows ping time was always lower.  To some people this suggests
that Windows is faster or has better networking but the reason I was
given was that Windows had a longer timeslice and so the numbers on this
machine were getting rounded down signficantly.  This probably isn't
true for W2k but the fact remains that ping times aren't anywhere near
as precise as the numbers appear. 

-- 
DSA 0x0EC1D28C: BBCB 0D79 4EBB 078A A066  7267 8BED E9D6 0EC1 D28C