From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ferrari Subject: how reliable is ping? Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:19:19 +0100 Message-ID: <200412061019.19099.fluca1978@infinito.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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