The kind of result you may expect..

[pinging to localhost.]
on uekawa [PIII with kernel 2.4.1 lowlatency]
$ time ./tcppingclient localhost 2001 1000000

real    0m48.917s
user    0m2.440s
sys     0m21.980s


on atoron [athlon 900 with kernel 2.4.2]
$ time ./tcppingclient localhost 2001 1000000

real    0m18.038s
user    0m1.290s
sys     0m7.210s

[pinging to remote]
from uekawa to atoron on 10baseT network.
$ time ./tcppingclient 192.168.1.4 2001 1000000

real    4m37.033s
user    0m2.270s
sys     1m0.560s

