On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:04:17AM -0800, Israel Brewster wrote: > Is there a plugin for smokeping that just does a standard ping, using > the system ping binary? Using FPing I have to give it a hostinterval = > 15.0 directive in order to get any sort of reliable return, and even > then I have to limit the number of pings it sends out to no more than > 6 or so. If I try to shorten the host interval, or increase the number > of pings, I start loosing packets. For example, if I reduce the > hostinterval to 10 seconds, I get a maximum of 3 packets back. > Obviously, this isn't a reasonable monitoring scenario. > > On the other hand, if I just run a standard ping from the command > line, it works fine with no lost packets even if I tell it to send a > packet every millisecond rather than every second. As such, I was > wondering if there was some way I could just use the standard ping > rather than FPing to monitor these hosts? I tried echoping at one > point in the past, but it didn't seem to work any better. Thanks!
You probably didn't get any answer because this is a very uncommon situation but you didn't give any details about your configuration. It certainly sounds like there's something wrong with your fping, and I think fixing it is a better approach than looking for alternatives. Does it work as badly from the command line too? Did you compile it yourself or is it supplied by your OS vendor/distribution? Which version is it? What platform are you running on? Does the packet size affect the loss? There's no plugin for a "standard ping", as far as I know, but fping is generally much better than those. Cheers, -- Niko _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
