Ping results are sometimes wrong

[Brett Glass]

At 12:39 PM 5/17/2003, Lars Eggert wrote:

>Various link layers have different characteristics. Trying to optimize 
>the averaging algorithm based on the specific behavior of one particular 
>link layer is probably not useful for a network layer tool like ping.

True. But the first ping is, in most cases, not going to be 
representative. So, it pays to throw it away if you're compiling 
statistics of any sort.

--Brett