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From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: how reliable is ping?
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:19:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412061019.19099.fluca1978@infinito.it> (raw)

Hi,
in my company we installed a new DSL line, supposed to be faster than the 
previous one. And in fact it seems to be, in interactive use, but if I use 
ping to test connectivity against the old line I can see higher times. So my 
questions is: why does ping show high times and then the line goes faster? Is 
ping reliable enough to test network speed, or should I use another tool? (at 
last, a chrono and a file transfer!)

Thanks,
Luca
-- 
Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@infinito.it



             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-06  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-06  9:19 Luca Ferrari [this message]
2004-12-06  9:29 ` how reliable is ping? Helge Pettersen
2004-12-06  9:38   ` Adrian C.
2004-12-06 10:06     ` Marcel Gschwandl
2004-12-06  9:55       ` urgrue
2004-12-06 11:10         ` Alexander Economou
2004-12-06 20:10           ` Matías López Bergero
2004-12-08  0:37       ` Jeff Woods
2004-12-13 22:28 ` Stephen Samuel

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