[smokeping-users] Re: Error in packet loss reporting.

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Niko Tyni wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:16:10PM +1000, Matthew Swainston wrote:
> > I have been using Smokeping for quite some time with various versions up to
> > 2.0.2, and there is an annoying little bug (or misconfiguration???) that I
> > have seen in every version I have tried. The issue is that when the first
> > packet in a polling cycle is dropped, smokeping reports 100% packet loss,
> > irrespective of how many packets actually get through. This only appears to
> > happen on the first packet, and if packet loss happens anywhere else the
> > correct values seem to be reported.
> Hi,
>
> this is indeed a bug in the fping probe. Thanks for reporting it!
> I'm attaching a tiny patch that fixes it for me.
>
> Tobi, I'd say this warrants a 2.0.3 bugfix release.

:-) release 2.0.3 coming up ...

cheers
tobi
>
> Cheers,
>

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