On Apr 20, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Igor Petrovski wrote: > 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.
So it's probably not the satellite link then :-) Duplex is set to auto- negotiate, which in tern sets it to full-duplex. I tried manually setting the links down to half-duplex as well, but this didn't seem to help any. ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----------------------------------------------- > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
