Stephane, Thanks for that. I had to set 'tos' to 0 as the echoping script expected a value. My graphs are now working as expected.
Thanks, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2008 13:56 To: Cherrington Stuart Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Use of EchoPingSMTP On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:48:33PM -0000, Cherrington Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 287 lines which said: > smokeping[14496]: EchoPingSmtp: Failed setting IP type of > service octet (Operation not permitted) On Linux (it seems to be te only Unix in that case), you need to be root to set the precedence of an IP packet. > The -P flag seems to be the culprit, No, the "tos" option in your Smokeping configuration is (see 'smokeping -man Smokeping::probes::EchoPingHttp'). I advise *not* to set it, it is of little use, anyway. > so I read and re-read the man page, It warns you: You may need to be superuser to set some -p or -P values (precedence on Linux, for instance). _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
