[smokeping-users] [BULK] Misleading statistics.

[Bruce Mackey]

Yes, I also was thinking that it would be nice to have a way to schedule
"down time" for a host that smokeping would use to ignore packet loss.
I wouldn't know how to do this however.  :-)

Currently, I click on the graph and set the ranges when the host is live
and get the statistics from that.   Much more manual a process but much
more accurate!

-Bruce

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[mailto:smokeping-users-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of G.W.
Haywood
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:10 AM
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Hi folks,

My take on the statistics on the graphs is that they're misleading.

http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/statistics.png

The machine in question is obviously switched off overnight, and while
it's running the network performs well.  The 'packet loss' statistics
shown in the graph don't give this impression.  I inderstand that it's
not easy to distinguish between a machine that's switched off and one
that's unreachable (but there are lies, damned lies, and statistics:).

Just my 0.02 currency units.  I'll be modifying my Smokeping to do
something more to my taste in this area.

--

73,
Ged.

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