I have Smokeping(SP) up and running on Ubuntu 7.10 [awesome utility btw - thanks to all for their time and effort on the package! very easy to use, install and set up]. I believe I am getting the overall gist of what it is capable of doing - but I think I am missing a tiny bit. After reading the documentation, I get that SP will send a number of packets out, grab the median & plot that then display the rest as smoke adjusting the color of the plot based on loss. So for something like:<br>
<br>1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5 (no loss) - I would expect to get a plot of green 2, with a little gray smoke below (if any) and a lot of smoke above (unsure of gray or blackness). <br><br>What I miss is the understanding of a graph that displays a green bar at 2 with nothing but black below it and no gray above it?<br>
<br>Or Green with dark black going to light black only below it?<br>Or Green with dark black evenly on either side of it?<br><br>Does the farther away from the median denote the darkness of gray or black? so values of:<br>
<br>1,1,1,1,5,10,20,300,400 (no loss) = a plot of 5, with a little gray below, and a lot of black above reaching very high?<br><br>Sorry for the noob question, but I believe I am experiencing hardware problems and if I am going to use SP to help justify my case for the funds needed for new equipment, I will need to be able to explain it (more so than just saying - it looks different than those other ones, so it must be bad! =)<br>
<br>Thanks for any input/response<br>Dave<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>... course don't ever tell anybody that they're not free cause then they gonna get real busy killen and maimin to prove to you that they are - George Hanson