(accidentally dropped the list, adding it back) Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 5:33 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@toke.dk> wrote: >> >> Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > so I just upgraded to ubuntu 18.04 finally and tried to get flent running. >> > >> > flent's in toke's ppa... installs irtt and flent... >> >> It's also included in the distro proper for 18.04... > > Well, ubuntu-server does not enable the universe repo by default. So > my process was being a dumb user and googling... first up was your > ppa. Ah, right. Well, the PPA should also work :) >> > no netperf in their default repos >> > the multiverse/universe version is 2.6. >> > >> > netperf 2.7 won't build due to a missing makeinfo utility that's also >> > in the universe repo >> >> I seem to recall trying (and failing) to get the Debian netperf >> maintainer to update to 2.7... > > sigh. I just bugged the netperf package maintainer again, and offered to take over maintenance of the package... >> > ubuntu "ping" now automagically will do ipv6. This confuses flent >> > especially when your ipv6 is not actually working. >> >> Whaddyamean confuses? > > perhaps a check for ping -4 or ping -6 is now needed. There already is one. What about it is not working? As usual, a debug log output would be helpful... >> > fping is not in their default repos, nor the multiverse repo. It is in >> > the universe repo, however. >> > running that version with rrul gives me... >> > >> > WARNING: Program exited non-zero. >> > Runner class: PingRunner >> > Command: /usr/bin/fping -D -p 200 -c 350 -t 140000 >> > flent-newark.bufferbloat.net >> > Return code: -15 >> > Stdout: >> > Stderr: /usr/bin/fping: warning: timeout (-t) value larger than period >> > (-p) produces unexpected results >> > >> > WARNING: Command produced no valid data. >> > >> > so no ping. >> >> Hmm, there is code to detect and avoid this situation, but guess it's >> not working... > > 200*350 = 70000. I guess fping now enforces that. Nah, it's just a warning. Discussion here: https://github.com/schweikert/fping/issues/32 The reason you're getting no data is something else... Can you actually ping that host? >> > Anyway, after all that >> > apt-get install python3-matplotlib python3-pyqt5 >> > >> > aside from poking into what broke with fping, got me a working flent >> > on this release. >> > >> > I think a "flent-gui" package would help the universe a little. > > still I like flent-gui.... Well, patches to the debian packaging scripts are welcome ;) Though if you open a github issue for it, I may get around to it the next time I feel like dealing with those... -Toke _______________________________________________ Flent-users mailing list Flent-users@flent.org http://flent.org/mailman/listinfo/flent-users_flent.org
