On Apr 17, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Hi Israel, > > have you tried looking with wireshark at the network traffic to see > when is actually happening on the wire ... the fping parameters can > be somewhat confusing at times ...
Sorry about the delayed response. Things have been crazy at my company for the last couple months, and this issue got pushed aside. I think I might actually have a moment to breath now :) Anyway, no, I haven't looked at the traffic with wireshark. Actually, I've never even heard of that tool :P. I'll look into it. ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----------------------------------------------- > cheers > tobi > > Today Israel Brewster wrote: > >> On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: >>> Israel, >>> >>> the interesting thing to look at, would be why fping does not work >>> for you, my guess is that you have some kind of firewall which does >>> something to ping packets ... normal commandline ping does not in >>> general send as many pings as fping can, since fping pings multiple >>> hosts in parallel ... >> >> Good theory, except that some of the hosts we are monitoring >> respond just fine >> to FPing, and the ones that do and don't respond properly are all >> the same >> type of device (linksys RV082). >> >>> Via the probe plugin interface it is possible to write interfaces >>> for aribtrary ping like tests, since noone else seems to have the >>> type of problem you are seeing, a probe module for normal ping has >>> not been written to date ... >> >> Well, so much for that idea. Thanks for the info. >> >>> for a list of available probes, check out >>> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/probe/ >> >> I've tried echoping as well, but I can't even get that one to >> return any >> results at all, no matter which of the options I choose. None of >> the others >> looked like they would be appropriate, but perhaps I missed >> something, so I'll >> look again. Thanks! >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> Israel Brewster >> Computer Support Technician >> Frontier Flying Service Inc. >> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd >> Fairbanks, AK 99709 >> (907) 450-7250 x293 >> ----------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> cheers >>> tobi >>> >>> Today Israel Brewster wrote: >>> >>>> Anyone have any ideas here? Or should I start looking for an >>>> alternative to smokeping entirely? If so, any suggestions? To >>>> date, I >>>> haven't seen any non-commercial options that seem to fill the same >>>> niche, but maybe I'm just missing something? At any rate, the >>>> current >>>> situation as described below isn't an acceptable option. Thanks! >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------- >>>> Israel Brewster >>>> Computer Support Technician >>>> Frontier Flying Service Inc. >>>> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd >>>> Fairbanks, AK 99709 >>>> (907) 450-7250 x293 >>>> ----------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 15, 2008, at 10:04 AM, 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 viable 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! >>>>> ----------------------------------------------- >>>>> Israel Brewster >>>>> Computer Support Technician >>>>> Frontier Flying Service Inc. >>>>> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd >>>>> Fairbanks, AK 99709 >>>>> (907) 450-7250 x293 >>>>> ----------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten >>> http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 >> > > -- > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten > http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
