Some senseless babbling from Thomas Seeling to Ivan Todoroski
on 18 Nov 98  10:00:16 about PM drawing priorities......

 TS> Hallo IVAN,

 TS> Am 15 Nov 98 um 09:35 schrieb IVAN TODOROSKI an JEFF DUNLOP:
 
 
 IT>   Nope... checked it THOROUGHLY before I sent the message. If you start
 IT>   ping with the normal (default) priority, and drag windows around, it
 IT>   virtually stops!
 IT>   If you run "ping localhost" you should get ZERO return
times for the
 IT>   packets, but while you're dragging the window the times are EXACTLY
 IT>   1000ms, which is consistent with my MAXWAIT=1 setting in CONFIG.SYS.
 TS> Have you ever imagined that ping only *sends* one packet a second?
 TS> This is the standard behaviour. ping measures the time elapsed until
 TS> the ICMP echo request answer comes in. Read the man^h^h^hdocumentation
 TS> page for ping in the TCP/IP package.

You should have thought about that before posting it.

PING reports the time between when the packet was sent, to when the reply 
was received.  It doesn't matter how often the packets are sent.  They 
could be sent every 27 days, but the time given will reflect only the time 
interval between send and receive.

Mike Ruskai
thanny{at}home.com


... MS isn't the answer. It's the question. HELL NO is the answer.
--- Renegade v05-11 Exp