[Gllug] Pinging a machine that is down

[Andrew Farnsworth]

On Sat Jan  9 12:46 , Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> sent:

>I have just rebooted a customer's machine (to run a new kernel).
>
>I left a ping running so that I could login once it had rebooted.
>
>I noticed that the ''Destination Host Unreachable'' appear in 3s with the one before
>the first of the 3 missing. Eg in the sequence below 100,101,102 all appear at once,
>there is then a pause before 104,105,106 appear.

Alain,
  Are you using ping directly or via some other app?  This sounds like a buffer
issue and I have seen this while coding where I forget to turnoff my output
buffers.  It will run caching the output until it hits a certain size, the flush
it to the screen.  Other than that, no idea why.

Andy
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