[smokeping-users] FPing alternative

[Igor Petrovski]

Check for a duplex mismatch on the ethernet interface of the smokeping 
server.

I've been running smokeping for years, monitoring ~100 satellite links 
and fping works great.


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
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>> Specifically look at the hostinterval, mininterval, and timeout
>> settings....
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>
> 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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> Frontier Flying Service Inc.
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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.
>> |
>>
>> - --
>> Peter Kristolaitis
>> DBA / Code Monkey / General Geek
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