Hi Askar, These gaps indicate PING DROPS. If you stop the pinging, the last line before the command prompt will show you the statistics. You will see what the success %age was and how many packets were dropped. Do a traceroute and see at what node in your network the packets get dropped or experience a great delay. I hope this helps. Thank you, Deepak ----- Original Message ----- From: Askar To: netfilter Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:19 AM Subject: icmp gaps hi all Below is the output of ping to our billing server from on one of another server, when one look into "icmp_seq" sometime there is gap between two packets for example in icmp_seq=25 <---> icmp_seq=28 and icmp_seq=21 <---> icmp_seq=23. I just wants to know these gaps are normal or something to worried about? regards Askar 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=0 ttl=61 time=6.65 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=2 ttl=61 time=22.5 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=3 ttl=61 time=9.77 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=4 ttl=61 time=26.9 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=5 ttl=61 time=22.6 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=8 ttl=61 time=13.1 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=9 ttl=61 time=40.4 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=10 ttl=61 time=24.0 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=11 ttl=61 time=18.9 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=12 ttl=61 time=5.80 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=13 ttl=61 time=26.1 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=14 ttl=61 time=26.6 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=15 ttl=61 time=16.9 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=16 ttl=61 time=7.64 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=17 ttl=61 time=8.67 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=18 ttl=61 time=8.04 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=19 ttl=61 time=5.86 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=21 ttl=61 time=6.14 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=23 ttl=61 time=5.82 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=24 ttl=61 time=5.84 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=25 ttl=61 time=11.1 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=28 ttl=61 time=5.89 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=29 ttl=61 time=5.81 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=30 ttl=61 time=5.79 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=31 ttl=61 time=13.3 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=32 ttl=61 time=5.79 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=33 ttl=61 time=8.52 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=35 ttl=61 time=25.1 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=36 ttl=61 time=8.17 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=38 ttl=61 time=5.97 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=39 ttl=61 time=6.04 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=40 ttl=61 time=13.4 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=41 ttl=61 time=29.1 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=42 ttl=61 time=26.0 ms 64 bytes from ab.abc.net (xxx.xxxx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=43 ttl=61 time=12.9 ms -- "If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers..." - Homer Simpson
