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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 07:34:58AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> At about Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:23:43AM -0500,
> Kenneth Brody blabbed on about:
> > The Windows version of ping has a "-t" flag which causes ping to run
> > forever (well, until you break out).  Pressing Ctrl-Break will tell
> > you the stats up to that point.  Start it up before you even run
> > filePro.  I like to run "start ping -t www.xxx.yyy.zzz" to run in
> > its own window, and set the properties to a small font with a lot
> > of visible rows.  That lets a large part of the history to be seen
> > at once.
> 
> Which is almost useless as they include no sequence number.  If 99% of your
> times are all 0.1ms, you can't tell squat once you've filled the screen and
> scrollback buffer to min_scrollbar_size.

For our purposes, which are mostly "what percentage of packets are
being dropped on this link", what do you need the seq numbers for,
Mark?

Cheers,
-- jra
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