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  1. From: mac@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin)
  2. Newsgroups: alt.sources
  3. Subject: Re: Experiment to measure Internet communication performance
  4. Message-ID: <1991May4.150553.16363@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  5. Date: 4 May 91 15:05:53 GMT
  6.  
  7. >+---------------
  8. >| If the idea is to bounce packets around, what's wrong with the echo
  9. >| server built into inetd?
  10. >+---------------
  11. >Or the echo packet ICMP request (the heart of "ping")?
  12.  
  13. being built-in, they don't tell you much about the process-process timing.
  14. presumaby that's independent of internet routes?
  15.