What determines the speed of the ping scans?ANSWERA normal ping scan round will last one-half second past the time when the last reply is received in each round. (The rounds will continue until no replies are received for eight consecutive rounds.) However, if the machine on which Batch User Manager is running is receiving a large number of additional inbound ICMP packets, Batch User Manager will automatically increase this time by a factor of eight (from one-half second to four seconds of slack per round) to increase reliability. One situation where you may find the ping time increased by this factor of eight is if you are using other network scanning tools that generate lots of ICMP traffic (such as “PingPlotter” or multiple copies of “ping”) simultaneously on the same machine running Batch User Manager. If this causes the Batch User Manager ping scan to take is too long in your environment, you may wish to temporarily pause the other tool(s). Generally the difference will be about 30 seconds.
This article was last reviewed on 24 Jan 2006.
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