[smokeping-users] CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP probe and IOS 15.x

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Mateusz,

Today Mateusz Blaszczyk wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> Just wanted to give a heads up on the issue I had with
> CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP probe and new IOS version 15.0.
> I have tested and confirmed the problem on 15.0(1)M on both c7206VXR
> and c7301 on both adv ip serv and sp serv train.
>
> The main problem is that for some reason the minimal acceptable value
> for rttMonCtrlAdminTimeout (or .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.2.1.1.7) is now
> 5000ms (btw equal to MIB default value).
>
> I propose to increase the variable pingtimeout to 5.
>
> --- /tmp/CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP.pm	2010-03-08 10:17:18.000000000 +0000
> +++ CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP.pm	2010-03-05 15:53:39.000000000 +0000
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
>  	}
>  }
>
> -my $pingtimeout =2;
> +my $pingtimeout =5;
>
>  sub new($$$)
>  {
>
>
> Also the probe calculated timeout must be more then 100s so the probe
> configuration should be at least:
>
> +CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP
>         timeout = 10
>
> That way the probe timeout is 201s, enough for all packets to be send
> and response to be collected.
>
>
> Problem in detail:
>
[...]

I don't have such a router at my disposal, but I'll be glad to
integrate your patch ... not sure what you mean with the timeout of
100s ... this seems a rather long time to me ... especially as you
mention $pingtimeout=5.

how would your complete patch look like ?

cheers
tobi

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