Dez Cadena wrote: >I had some non-responsive fping targets in my config so I tried both >ping and fping from the command line. >Same target, same options (5 packets, 64bytes size, 1sec between packets): >fping produced 100% packet loss (as expected) >ping produced 0% packet loss (!) > >AFAIK, both fping and ping send ICMP echo requests so how come the same >target is responsive through >ping and non-responsive through fping? Any ideas? The target is a cisco >26xx router. > Updating myself here...
I've realised that fping only succeeds if I set the packet size to something really small (e.g. 20bytes) whereas ping has no problem with the default packet size (56). The mystery remains. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
