[smokeping-users] Bug: constant erroneous packet loss

[Anonymous Internet User]

I'm running smokeping version 2.6.8 on a Raspberry Pi.

 $ ping -c 500 24.74.252.129 | grep -A 3 statistics 
--- 24.74.252.129 ping statistics ---
500 packets transmitted, 500 received, 0% packet loss, time 499746ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.954/14.005/56.465/7.723 ms

I have no packet loss when I use ping.

When I use SmokePing, I get the following graph:



packet loss: 20.00 % avg 20.00 % max 20.00 % min 20.00 % now

One out of every five packets are reported as missing.  I had changed the fping frequency from 3 (where I was getting a loss of 1 in 3, or 33.33%) to 5 (where I was getting a loss of 1 in 5, or 20.00%).

At first the reported loss was only to a ping to google.  Then I stopped the daemon, cleared the rrd data, restarted SmokePing, and the "loss" went to the first hop outside of my router.  I repeated the process and now the "loss" is on the second hop outside of my router.

Bug?  Is it known?  Is there a patch?

Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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