Today Niko Tyni wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:51:00PM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > > I also wonder what the implications are as to what we measure ... > > at the moment fping sends the icmp packets back-to-back > > intentionally, to get a educated snapshot of what the link looked > > at measurement time ... spreading the packets over the measurement > > periode looses that advantag and goes into the direction of 'I want > > to measure more often' this is already configurable by lowering the > > step size so I am not sure this is a good idea ... > > You're right, I didn't think this through. > > Reducing the step size has the disadvantage of making the measurement > harder on the network, unless we simultaneously reduce the # of ping > packets sent.
sure this would have to be done ... > In fact, we get the very same behaviour by setting pings = 1 and step = > 15, so there's really not much point having a new variable for it > anyway. there you go :-) tobi > > Cheers, > -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETL F24.2, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker +41(0)44-632-5286 -- 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
