On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:22:33AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Small home network - I'm wondering what reasonable "ping" times are. Now > I have > > windy --> chickie: average about .389ms > > chickie --> windy: average about .463ms > > Both machines on RH8. Are these the sort of times that you would expect?
They look fine and about what I'd expect. 64 byte packets at 10 Mbit/s take 51 us to send. You won't get the full 10 Mbit/s, so allow 110 us for both packets (ping and response). Add some time for the kernels to process the packets, say 100 - 200 us each depending upon processor speed, and you have 310 - 510 us. Between two PII-350s and a P4-2GHz here (with 17 hosts on the network) I get 330 - 360us, between any of these and a P90 I get around 450us. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
