[smokeping-users] FPing alternative

[Ben Ragg]

FPing by default has a timeout of 500ms, most other versions of Ping will
time out after 1000ms or 2000ms. This is probably why you're seeing the
difference

I believe you want something like fping -t 2000 (but check the man page)
and see how you go

Ben


On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Israel Brewster wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing.en.html
> >
> > 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
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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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