Re:GNU Units
by blauditore on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:25AM
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Thanks for that link.
> Well, to start with, it can't be three milliseconds, because that would only be for the outgoing packet to arrive at its destination. You have to get a response, too, before the timeout will be aborted. Shouldn't it be six milliseconds?
> Of course. This is one of the details I skipped in the story. It seemed irrelevant, and boring, so I left it out.
> Well, to start with, it can't be three milliseconds, because that would only be for the outgoing packet to arrive at its destination. You have to get a response, too, before the timeout will be aborted. Shouldn't it be six milliseconds?
> Of course. This is one of the details I skipped in the story. It seemed irrelevant, and boring, so I left it out.
I don't understand, so it was in fact 6 ms?