[OT] Windows 2003 vs Knoppix

[Jerry McBride]

 On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 22:24 +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote:
 > pinging from windows 2003 to the server:
 >
 > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping server
 >
 > Pinging server.donkeyware.org [192.168.1.2] with 32 bytes of data:
 >
 > Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=64
 > Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=64
 > Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=64
 > Reply from 192.168.1.2: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=64
 >
 >
 > ping from knoppix linux to the same server:
 >
 > root at Knoppix:/ # ping server
 > PING server.donkeyware.org (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
 > 64 bytes from server.donkeyware.org (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
 > time=0.492ms
 > 64 bytes from smtp.donkeyware.org (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
 > time=0.524 ms
 > 64 bytes from news.donkeyware.org (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64
 > time=0.549 ms
 > 64 bytes from www.donkeyware.org (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64
 > time=0.541 ms
 > 64 bytes from pop.donkeyware.org (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64
 > time=0.548 ms
 > 64 bytes from ftp.donkeyware.org (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64
 > time=0.538 ms
 >
 > 0.6 ms vs 20ms. Why is there such a big difference? What the hell was
 > the Windows 2003 doing behind the scene?

Err.... uhmm.... Holding up it's pants??


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