Hi,
Don't forget that the ARP protocol is probably running before the
first ICMP packet is sent out.
Thanx,
Jaap
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Visser, Martin wrote:
> I have seen this problem with the Windows ping in the past. The first
> ping always gives a very high response time compared to subsequent ones.
>
> ping MMM.NNN.50.1
> PING MMM.NNN.50.1 (16.145.50.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from MMM.NNN.50.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=73 ms
> 64 bytes from MMM.NNN.50.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0 ms
> 64 bytes from MMM.NNN.50.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1 ms
> 64 bytes from MMM.NNN.50.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1 ms
> 64 bytes from MMM.NNN.50.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0 ms
>
> ----MMM.NNN.50.1 PING Statistics----
> 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip (ms) min/avg/max/med = 0/15/73/1
>
> I believe that is an internal Windows issue (something to do with the
> delay of loading the ICMP.dll) and not related to actual time-of-flight
> of the ICMP echo.
>
> When I have used windows ping in doing doing network analysis from
> scripts I either disregard the first response (or use another ping
> program!)
>
>
> Martin Visser
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anis BEN
> ABDALLAH
> Sent: Monday, 12 June 2006 8:20 PM
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> Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal timings vs ping timings
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm testing an embedded ethernet device and when trying with the ping
> command, I have a different timings between reply timings indicated by
> the ping command in the dos window and timings indicated in the ethereal
> (time delta from previous packet)
>
> For example for the first reply I got "time = 9ms" in dos window while
> in ethereal I have "time delta from previous packet = 0.00055 s"
>
> Why this difference?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Anis
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