Today Philippe Strauss wrote: > 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.
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