[smokeping-users] FPing alternative

[Tobias Oetiker]

Israel,

the interesting thing to look at, would be why fping does not work
for you, my guess is that you have some kind of firewall which does
something to ping packets ... normal commandline ping does not in
general send as many pings as fping can, since fping pings multiple
hosts in parallel ...

Via the probe plugin interface it is possible to write interfaces
for aribtrary ping like tests, since noone else seems to have the
type of problem you are seeing, a probe module for normal ping has
not been written to date ...

for a list of available probes, check out
http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/

cheers
tobi

Today Israel Brewster wrote:

> Anyone have any ideas here? Or should I start looking for an
> alternative to smokeping entirely? If so, any suggestions? To date, I
> haven't seen any non-commercial options that seem to fill the same
> niche, but maybe I'm just missing something? At any rate, the current
> situation as described below isn't an acceptable option. Thanks!
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Israel Brewster
> Computer Support Technician
> Frontier Flying Service Inc.
> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> Fairbanks, AK 99709
> (907) 450-7250 x293
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Israel Brewster wrote:
> > 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 viable 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!
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Israel Brewster
> > Computer Support Technician
> > Frontier Flying Service Inc.
> > 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> > Fairbanks, AK 99709
> > (907) 450-7250 x293
> > -----------------------------------------------
> >
> >
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