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From: Mills@UDEL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  Repeated ping responses?
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Date: 17 Aug 89 13:53:39 GMT
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Roy,

You may have caught it in an ugly mood. Using ICMP Timestamp messages, it
has a most satisfying and stable delay of 1609-1616 ms delay and clock
jitter of 8 ms max. With more data as yours, I would look for clusters of delay separated by 270 ms or so, the roundtrip
satellite delay. 

Dave