[smokeping-users] Re: Ping Times

[Shane Kindt]

I was trying fping 2.4b2 and it required automake.  I am running RH9 on this 
box.  I got the automake and the autoconf but it kept saying there was 
./missing in a file.
I then tried fping 2.3b1 and it installed fine.  It gave me ping times about 
50% of what they were supposed to be,  this is better than 10%.


Then i tried fping 2.4b2_to  and that installed fine.  Now my ping times 
seem to be correct.  I have been using this configuration for 5 days and without a hitch.  I have stopped and started it many times to see if it is acurate all the time and it is.  I even rebooted the server a couple of times just to make sure all the startup scripts worked etc...  all is good.

Thanks for all your help.

Shane

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Niko Tyni" <ntyni+smokeping-users at mappi.helsinki.fi>
To: "Shane Kindt" <skindt at swwnet.com>
Cc: <smokeping-users at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 11:27 AM
Subject: [smokeping-users] Re: ping times


> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:30:36AM -0600, Shane Kindt wrote:
>
>> I recently got Smokeping setup with FPing.  All seems to be going
>> well except the ping times being graphed.  According to smokeping, I am
>> pinging google.com from 6 - 8 ms.  This would be awesome but I know it
>> isn't true.  If I execute   "  fping www.google.com -l   " at the shell
>> prompt, I receive 60 - 80 ms pings.    To me, this seems like a scale
>> issue.  the ping times I am receiving and the ping times that are being
>> displayed are 10x off...
>
> Hi,
>
> old versions of fping are buggy and report with a wrong scaling factor.
> Smokeping tries to work around this by parsing the fping output at
> startup and deducing the right factor. Apparently it doesn't succeed
> for you.
>
> What's the output of 'fping -C 1 localhost'?  Please include it verbatim.
> What does smokeping say at startup about fping reporting?
> I just did some tests with 2.2b1, and the parsing works for me.
>
> Anyway, you best bet is to upgrade to fping 2.4b2, which doesn't have
> this bug.
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Niko
>
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