FPing by default has a timeout of 500ms, most other versions of Ping will time out after 1000ms or 2000ms. This is probably why you're seeing the difference
I believe you want something like fping -t 2000 (but check the man page) and see how you go Ben On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Israel Brewster wrote: > On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Since satellite are typically high-latency, high-loss links, have you > > considered tweaking the FPing probe's behaviour to take that into > > account? > > > > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/FPing.en.html > > > > Specifically look at the hostinterval, mininterval, and timeout > > settings.... > > Yeah. As I mentioned in my original post, setting the hostinterval > does alleviate, to some extent, the issues I'm seeing- but only if I > set it up to 15 SECONDS or higher (not milliseconds), thus resulting > in an essentially unusable probe. Ping shows RTA's of around 600 ms > typically. I have the timeout set to 2 seconds, which is well more > than the latency I typically see, but even so that would only affect > the last packet or two, and I never get more than two or three packets > back total, regardless of how many I send out. And ping shows no loss- > just FPing which shows 100% loss after the first few packets (few > defined by how high I set the hostinterval for). Thanks for the > response though :) > > ----------------------------------------------- > Israel Brewster > Computer Support Technician > Frontier Flying Service Inc. > 5245 Airport Industrial Rd > Fairbanks, AK 99709 > (907) 450-7250 x293 > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > Israel Brewster wrote: > > | These are WAN lines, typically out in the bush and running over > > | satellite links, so I could very easily entertain the notion that > > | there is something wrong with the line :) Thus the reason I was > > | looking for a standard ping, which does work. According to Tobias, > > | though, this is not available. Hmmm. > > | > > > > - -- > > Peter Kristolaitis > > DBA / Code Monkey / General Geek > > > > OpenPGP/GPG Key available from pgp.mit.edu > > > > Key Fingerprint: 695D 7616 9903 6002 5756 > > ~ D234 6E96 34B2 F974 14FE > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFIB4G9bpY0svl0FP4RAg1zAJ9ax5urpiQDzGXy1k9BB3vY2/0WuwCcDxD+ > > 5nu+bjTSxHlZMqde+eB0yws= > > =3eIk > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users > _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
