On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:31:38AM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > Today Leigh Sharpe wrote: > > > Hi guys, Can't quite seem to work this one out. Is there any way > > of reporting the 'avg loss' as a percentage? It would be much > > more useful (and readable by the boss) than the per-20-packets > > reading. > > sure this would be hackable ... but I find it sort of strange to > give a percentage for so few packets ... if we sent 1000 packets > then % would seem natural to me ... but when we send 20 things > would be in 5% steps anyway ... > > anyone ... what do you think ... would % help the readability of > the graph ?
yes, sure 20 probe is statisticaly weak, but the % would at least be easier to understand. I spent some time figuring that it was the number of probe which failed over 20, rather than a percentile. -- Philippe Strauss http://philou.ch/ L'indifférence est le plus grand risque de notre temps, la forme civilisée de la cruauté. -- Zenta Maurina . -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
