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From: milazzo@RICE.EDU (Paul Milazzo)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: A new record?
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Date: 7 May 88 12:24:09 GMT
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Chris:

I once ran ping for hours on a newly-installed proNet-10, with
similarly frightening results.  My host, a lightly-loaded VAX-11/750,
was pinging itself because it was the only host on the ring.  Amidst
thousands of 20 msec round-trip times, one ping returned---out of
sequence---after 11.5 seconds!

Where could it have hidden for that long?  I assume it was parked in an
mbuf somewhere; a three-million kilometer detour seems unlikely...

				Paul G. Milazzo 
				Dept. of Computer Science
				Rice University, Houston, TX