Ahhh, the infamous negative value export! Good question!<br><br>Actually, it's a bug where Ping Plotter's export is not properly translating some of it's internal "status" codes. There are several possible values you might see here.<br><br>-32768 - Timeout. This should always show as * in an export<br>-32766 - A response has not yet been received, but the timeout period has not yet expired. This should only be visible on the end sample (or several samples if your trace frequency is higher than your timeout period). This might turn into a timeout, or it might turn into a real response - we don't know until we wait a little longer.<br>-32765 - Tracing was stopped and resumed here. Happens any time you hit the stop button, and then hit resume. Used so Ping Plotter knows you didn't send out any samples during that period.<br>-32764 - This is the most usual number you see - and will happen any time you have an oscillating router or route change when you're exporting data for a route that doesn't exactly match the time period you're exporting for. It should show up in the export as "N/A" - or "Not applicable" - not a timeout, as some router *did* respond, just not this one.<br><br>Thanks for reporting this - I believe this has been fix for the next release, but it's been logged again just to make sure.<br><br><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Pete Ness on 2/25/02 08:55 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
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