I am running ping.exe from a Windows 2003 Server machine through FreeBSD
4.8 running ipfw, to another Windows server. With plr=0, I get no ping
failures at all, and with ipfw at its defaults I get no successes, so
I'm pretty sure the network is good.
I configured ipfw with various packet loss rates (call it X) in one
direction, _zero loss_ in the other direction. Then I ran ping for
several hundred cycles. This should be sending an ICMP echo request
(with X prob. of loss), and an echo reply (which should always get
through). Therefore, I would expect to see a ping failure probability
of X.
I tried this at plr's from 0.002 up to 0.47, and did the math: ping is
failing exactly (allowing for statistical variation) 1.500 times more
than expected. This is too unlikely to be chance, so I figure the nice
round fraction of additional failures is due to something I don't yet
understand. Can anyone explain this result? Thanks.
No luck searching the Internet or the FreeBSD/search sites.
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Grant D. Schultz
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ScriptPro
5828 Reeds Road
Mission, KS 66202
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