Re: Bad in 1.3.76

roque@di.fc.ul.pt
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:40:10 +0100


>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com> writes:

Todd> On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>> In addition, the PPP in 1.3.76 still is not as good as that in
>> win95 (i get a 167ms ping reply in 95 and a 190ms in linux)...

Todd> Ping time is in no way related to network proficiency. Ping
Todd> time is in no way related to modem performance. Ping time
Todd> is an inappropriate benchmark for contrasting different
Todd> operating systems, as netcode designs might sacrifice
Todd> greater latency for betteer over-all network effeciency.
Todd> This is a valid design decision, and should not be
Todd> denigrated by the simplistic use of an easily-measured (and
Todd> fairly unimportant) statistic.

Also, if i'm not mistaken win95 ping uses 16 byte packets by default
while Unix pings default to 56/64 bytes. This beeing true and the
original poster as a better performance with Linux :-)

regards,
Pedro.