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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: How much packet loss is acceptable?
Message-ID: <735@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 13:52:51 EST
Article-I.D.: oliveb.735
Posted: Tue Mar 31 13:52:51 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Apr-87 00:49:18 EST
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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Keywords: ping packet loss ethernet

We have an ethernet connecting 14 computers all located in the same room.
I was playing arround with "ping" (4.3BSD Unix on a Vax750) and noticed
that packets were lost when talking to the other systems.  If I run:

		ping othersys 1500 100

It reports that ~7% of the packets were lost.  While this doesn't seem
to be causing any problems I am concerned about potential degredation.
Is this an inevitable loss based on timeing or something?  Should I
investigate my cabling and tranceivers for problems?

					Jerry Aguirre
					Systems Administration
					Olivetti ATC