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Re: PING/PONG




On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Robert Martin-Legene wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Michal *pht* Svoboda wrote:
> 
> > For example, to be able to measure lag in an ellegant way.
> 
> How about writing the client, so it remembers how many PINGs it sent, and
> how many PONGs it receives? You wouldn't need anything unique in the
> PING/PONGs. You can easily see if you are 3 PONGs behind.
> 
I know, but note the "ellegant" word. CTCP ping works exactly like this,
so why not make server ping work the same. Besides, there are more
commands that do not behave like described in RFC.

pht