I have a router in my path someplace that doesn handle multiple outstanding ICMP requests. Can I change Ping Plotter to use a single thread for tracing?
Absolutely! Using a single outstanding trace thread seriously impacts the performance of Ping Plotter, but sometime’s it’s necessary to do this. Note: You need to close all instances of Ping Plotter before doing these steps. • Open up your PingPlotter.INI file in your editor of choice (this file is in the Ping Plotter directory). • Insert a new line in the “Advanced” section of the .INI file. This line should read “MaxThreadCount=1” (without the quotes). • Open Ping Plotter. In the “Edit” menu, go to “Advanced Options” and the “Packet Options” tab, change the “Time interval between hop traces” to 0. (This ups the performance somewhat, isn’t necessary, but very helpful). • Review the “Timeout speed” setting (this setting is in milliseconds – or 1/1000 of a second). If you never expect a hop to take more then 1 second to respond, enter 1000 here. Try to set it to the lowest reasonable number. • Turn *ON* “Use non-threaded Name Lookups”. To reverse this, remove the “MaxThreadCount=1” line
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