From: Renison, Rick (rick.renison@EDS.COM)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 11:26:55 EDT
According to the man pages, the number of periods is the number requests
sent out in the flood minus the number of replies received. In other words,
the number of lost packets.
Rick Renison, EDS Canada, DuSC, Oshawa, Ontario
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Kumar, Praveen (cahoot)
Sent: May 7, 2004 7:22 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: ping flood
Hi,
I want to exactly interpret the output of ping command with -f
option. how a period(.) in the output has to be interpreted, is it the
number of packets sent or dropped?
TIA
Praveen.K
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