Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Dumb question: ping w/o icmp support?
Message-ID: <1988Oct27.164540.1545@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8810251528.AA04950@braden.isi.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 88 16:45:40 GMT

In article <8810251528.AA04950@braden.isi.edu> braden@VENERA.ISI.EDU writes:
>Your box is going to have several different shades of yellow lights on it,
>shading between red and green...

No, better it should have a bar-graph display; all those yellow lights
will be hard to tell apart.  Now, what units would TCP/IP non-compliance
be expressed in?  Obviously the technical name of the quantity being
measured is something like "bogosity", but what are the units?  :-)

(By analogy to whetstones and dhrystones and the like, I'm tempted to
suggest "Millstones"!)
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