Howard Lowndes wrote:
With the very scant information supplied, I can't explain anything. Maybe one or both machines are loaded. Maybe one machine is running an OS that only polls for network packets once a second. Who can tell with only this much information?Can anyone explain why I get this on a LAN:# ping -n 192.168.40.129 PING 192.168.40.129 (192.168.40.129) from 192.168.40.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=999.649 msec 64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec 64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec --- 192.168.40.129 ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 12% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 999.649/1000.568/1000.789/0.656 ms
Cheers,
Bob Edwards.
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