Sorry for any confusion. I meant to say that the loss shows up as 1/20
missing, not 19/20 good. I wasn't looking at a graph when I sent the
email. It's still light blue and two right after each other. Again, any
insight or help is appreciated!

Vinny Abello wrote:
> Are there many people using FreeBSD 6.x and Smokeping?
> 
> I asked this a while back but nobody seemed to have any input. Ever since 
> moving from FreeBSD 5.3 to 6.0 (currently 6.1) I have been seeing artificial 
> loss in smokeping that does not exist. It always shows up as two repeated 
> intervals of 19/20 packets received (light blue) and never at the same time 
> on any of the monitors. I think there is some sort of ICMP rate limiting or 
> something else going on in the kernel but I have never been able to locate 
> it. Users on the FreeBSD-Stable list didn't have any input either. You can 
> clearly see on all of my graphs at the precise time I upgraded from 5.3 to 
> 6.0 there is slight loss from that time forward. It makes the graphs that are 
> logged for long periods of time look bad (always light blue) instead of 
> mostly green which they should be (for my network anyway). I've done numerous 
> tests with other tools to verify there is no packet loss from the same 
> machine. I cannot reproduce the statistics I see with Smokeping using 
> anything else. I

'm
>  hoping someone might have some input (other than use Linux). :)
> 
> If you need any more information about my setup, just ask. Almost all probes 
> are Fping based and there are somewhere between 50 and 60 monitors setup. The 
> server is a Dell 2650 with dual P4 Xeon 2.8GHz CPU's. MP kernel is enabled. I 
> was toying with disabling MP to see if it was some sort of weird problem with 
> multiple CPU's.
> 
> Any help or suggestions are appreciated! :)
> 

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