[smokeping-users] FPing alternative

[Israel Brewster]

Is there a plugin for smokeping that just does a standard ping, using  
the system ping binary? Using FPing I have to give it a hostinterval =  
15.0 directive in order to get any sort of reliable return, and even  
then I have to limit the number of pings it sends out to no more than  
6 or so. If I try to shorten the host interval, or increase the number  
of pings, I start loosing packets. For example, if I reduce the  
hostinterval to 10 seconds, I get a maximum of 3 packets back.  
Obviously, this isn't a reasonable monitoring scenario.

On the other hand, if I just run a standard ping from the command  
line, it works fine with no lost packets even if I tell it to send a  
packet every millisecond rather than every second. As such, I was  
wondering if there was some way I could just use the standard ping  
rather than FPing to monitor these hosts? I tried echoping at one  
point in the past, but it didn't seem to work any better. Thanks!
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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293
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