Hi Tobias, On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> you can also just set the timeout property in the smokeping config > file for the FPing probe. Note that the timeout is configured in > seconds there ! Sorry, I can't find the code that passes that parameter to fping, please could you enlighten me? > The problem with the timeout is that if you set it to 10s and you > do not actally have links whith this propperty, then every lost > packet will cause fping to wait for 10 seconds which can hurt > performance ... My version of fping doesn't seem to do that. It just waits for 10 seconds after sending the last ping to ensure that it's received any replies/duplicates/etc. that it's going to see. Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
