Re: WA AARNet link vastly improved

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From: Kevin Lentin
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00

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Dave Fitch (davidf@syd.csa.com.au) wrote:
> carl@oversteer.library.uwa.edu.au (Carl Brewer) writes:
> >I'm not sure what TIS have done, but whatever it was has worked, it's a 
> >peak time (11am WST, that's 2pm ESST)
> >
> >----1.23.130.139.in-addr.arpa PING Statistics----
> >104 packets transmitted, 103 packets received, 0% packet loss
> 
> Ahhh, this is possibly (?) a dumb question, but...
> why is 104 packets transmitted and 103 packets received
> counted as 0% packet loss??  Wasn't 1 packet lost there?

Either round off, or it doesn't count the last one, knowing that it was
interupted before it had the chance to receive. ie it does not know that
the last packet returned but it also does not know that it didn't.

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