Check for a duplex mismatch on the ethernet interface of the smokeping server.
I've been running smokeping for years, monitoring ~100 satellite links and fping works great. 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
