Performance Pinging, Perfping.exe
Version 1.3.0 September 2005
Software by Carsten Schmidt

If you like this software, please consider donating. Follow the link:
http://software.ccschmidt.de/appreciation.html

Please report bugs and feature requests to:
carsten@ccschmidt.de


How does it work and what does it do?
Perfping is a tool that allows you to ping a host continuously or with a single 
ping using different data volumes. This can give you an indication of the 
performance of the route to your host. You can change the ping interval from 2 
to 30 seconds using various timeouts. The timeout is always smaller than the pinging 
interval. Results are written to log window and log file if so chosen.
Unreachable hosts have a value of 0 ms.
The analysis function sends various pings, 10 each of 10 bytes, 100 bytes, 500 
bytes, 1 kbytes, 10 kbytes, 50 kybytes and 64 kbytes. The round trip times are
shown with the total and average times.


Comments:
- Errors are written to file and log window but may be shown later than 
  successfull pings when changing ping interval and timeout during runtime
- Thanks to François Piette for the internet component suite, Angus Robertson 
  for the threaded version of Ping and Dr. Jürgen Kehrel for the graph component.
  


Version history

1.3.0, September 2005
- added reset option to clear data from graphs
- added average line to graph

1.2.2, July 2005
- added option "Always on top"
- added adjustable time interval to analysis so that not all pings are sent at once
- added different view styles of graph

1.2.1, December 2004
- added the file 'hostfile.txt' that holds the last 10 pinged addresses

1.2.0, November 2004
- changed option desktop-centered to screen-centered to accomodate multi-monitor
  environments
- added analysis function with different sized ICMP packets 

1.1.1, October 2004
- minor cosmetic changes

1.1.0, August 2004
- improved look and feel
- added TTL

1.0.1.0, March 2004
- fixed tab order
- extended Ping size down to 1 byte
- added Readme.txt

1.0.0.0, October 2004
first release