[smokeping-users] Re: patch candidate for FPing.pm probe

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:51:00PM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
 
> I also wonder what the implications are as to what we measure ...
> at the moment fping sends the icmp packets back-to-back
> intentionally, to get a educated snapshot of what the link looked
> at measurement time ... spreading the packets over the measurement
> periode looses that advantag and goes into the direction of 'I want
> to measure more often' this is already configurable by lowering the
> step size so I am not sure this is a good idea ...

You're right, I didn't think this through.

Reducing the step size has the disadvantage of making the measurement
harder on the network, unless we simultaneously reduce the # of ping
packets sent.

In fact, we get the very same behaviour by setting pings = 1 and step =
15, so there's really not much point having a new variable for it
anyway.

Cheers,
-- 
niko

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