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Figure 2.1 |
Internet growth measured by the number of computers attached to the Internet in each year from 1981 though 2003. The y-axis is labeled in millions of computers. |
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Figure 2.2 |
Internet growth from 1981 through 2003 plotted on a log scale illustrates the exponential growth. |
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Figure 2.3 |
Example output from the ping program run on the author's workstation. The destination was www.sears.com, and the program was manually interrupted after five responses were received. |
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Figure 2.4 |
Example output from the ping program for destination berkeley.edu, which is located on the west coast. Round-trip times are higher than than those reported in Figure 2.3. |
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Figure 2.5 |
Example output from the ping program for destination mit.edu, a location on the east coast. Round-trip times are significantly higher than in previous examples. |
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Figure 2.6 |
Example output from traceroute run on the author's workstation to destination berkeley.edu, which is an alias for computer chaparral.Berkeley.edu. |
