What is meant by latency which is returned by ping
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A:
It's the time between sending the request and receiving the response. Typically this is only a few milliseconds for localhost or the local network but can be very large (relatively) for satellite transmissions, for example.
If it's likely to be more than one second, you may have to bump up the timeout so as to not detect it as a lost packet.
The following diagram shows you the idea.
SENDER RECEIVER
| |
ping request |\ |
^ | \ |
| | \ |
latency -+ | \| ping received
| | /| ping response
| | / |
v | / |
ping response |/ |
received | |
paxdiablo
2009-04-21 10:59:58
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jj33
2009-04-21 12:24:37