9 Oct
2002
9 Oct
'02
21:24
At 09/10/02 13:45, you wrote:
Your pings are done one at a time, so it could take quite a while to complete. If the whole class C is dead and your timeout is 2 seconds, then it would take almost 10 minutes to complete.
Yes, quite true - when I wrote this, it was for an internal company network, run from our HP/UX (or, as we used to call it, PH/UX) machine, so the timeout wasn't an issue...