Hi Chris, Today Chris Wilson wrote:
> 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? search for timeout in http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing.en.html > > 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. yes and if a packet is actually lost, then fping will have to wait for 10s to see if this is the case ... cheers tobi > Cheers, Chris. > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
