[HECnet] Issues With Virtual Cisco Tunnels and HECnet

On 10 Jan 2013, at 17:48, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/10/2013 04:36 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: Well. It works fine now. Wooo. marianne#ping 33.15 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte DECnet echos to atg 0 area.node 33.15, timeout is 5 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 392/429/476 ms marianne#ping 1.13 Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte DECnet echos to atg 0 area.node 1.13, timeout is 5 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 180/219/252 ms I wonder why the times are so high :) Let's see...an emulated computer running through an emulated router going down a pipe to a real router, then back out the same pipe to a machine on the other side of the planet. Hmm, why would that have quarter-second ping times? ;) I was more wondering why the roundtrip time to 33.15 was more-or-less double what it was to a system around the world. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA