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: <1988Nov3.213210.3040@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8810251528.AA04950@braden.isi.edu> <1988Oct27.164540.1545@utzoo.uucp> <3575@phri.UUCP> <1988Oct31.215228.18443@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 88 21:32:10 GMT

In article <1988Oct31.215228.18443@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>...it seems that "the bog" is the obvious name for
>>the unit of measure...
>
>Best suggestion I've heard so far...

Problem (pointed out by Craig Partridge):  we really don't want to measure
bad network implementations with a unit that sounds too much like Dave
Boggs's last name.  He's one of the good guys.
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