[smokeping-users] FPing alternative

[Israel Brewster]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
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> Since satellite are typically high-latency, high-loss links, have you
> considered tweaking the FPing probe's behaviour to take that into  
> account?
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> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing.en.html
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> Specifically look at the hostinterval, mininterval, and timeout  
> settings....

Yeah. As I mentioned in my original post, setting the hostinterval  
does alleviate, to some extent, the issues I'm seeing- but only if I  
set it up to 15 SECONDS or higher (not milliseconds), thus resulting  
in an essentially unusable probe. Ping shows RTA's of around 600 ms  
typically. I have the timeout set to 2 seconds, which is well more  
than the latency I typically see, but even so that would only affect  
the last packet or two, and I never get more than two or three packets  
back total, regardless of how many I send out. And ping shows no loss-  
just FPing which shows 100% loss after the first few packets (few  
defined by how high I set the hostinterval for). Thanks for the  
response though :)

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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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> Israel Brewster wrote:
> | These are WAN lines, typically out in the bush and running over
> | satellite links, so I could very easily entertain the notion that
> | there is something wrong with the line :) Thus the reason I was
> | looking for a standard ping, which does work. According to Tobias,
> | though, this is not available. Hmmm.
> |
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> Peter Kristolaitis
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