[hobbit] Conn Test Times

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Sat Oct 13 15:51:43 CEST 2007


That is another thing I forgot to ask - are you using ping for both tests?
Hobbitping for both tests?  Try Joost's (let me know if that's wrong)
suggestion and use fping.

On 10/12/07, Joost van den Broek <joost at seat-ibiza.nl> wrote:
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with ping'ing the wrong hosts. In
> my case it has afaik to do with hobbitping. Switching to fping would
> solve this issue, but I personally don't care (using smokeping for RTT
> stats).
>
> If you check Henkrik's demo page, you'll see that his local hosts
> (172.16.x, assuming these are not in a VPN) also have very high response
> times. Don't know why that is, maybe it will be resolved in the 4.3 final?
>
> -Joost
>
> Josh Luthman schreef:
> > Michael,
> >
> > Click the icon on the bb.html and confirm it is the correct IP address.
> > When I had this "problem" I noticed it was resolving the hostname and
> > ping'ing the incorrect IP address.  If you do notice it is ping'ing the
> > wrong address add the testip arguement after the last comment.
> >
> > Josh
> >
> > On 10/12/07, *Michael A. Price* <mprice at sgt-inc.com
> > <mailto:mprice at sgt-inc.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> >     Just curious if anyone knows the answer to this…
> >
> >
> >
> >     I am monitoring two hosts on the same switch/network from the hobbit
> >     server. When I look at the ping times on the hobbit server it says,
> >     it's around 20 ms for one and 40 ms for the other. The trending
> >     graphs for the conn test is reflecting the same thing.
> >
> >
> >
> >     But when I actually get on the CLI on the hobbit server and ping the
> >     two hosts, they are around .7 ms ping response times.
> >
> >
> >
> >     Whats the different between the application pinging the hosts and me
> >     doing it at the CLI.????
> >
> >
> >
> >     Thanks, michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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