On a free weekend, I will do that to be sure =)<br><br>Another piece of evidence that supports my theory is that if I root through the full history of the hosts I find a lot of ~30 second red durations in the middle of the green ones.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hubbard, Greg L</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com">greg.hubbard@eds.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Why don't you try a tcpdump or snoop against a specific
host and see what is going on? I think you are being misled by these
measurements.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">If I remember the code, the Hobbit pinger tries once every
minute. It also will retry a few times if there is a failure. If it
decides to put "conn" into a red state, it then starts polling every minute
(instead of five minutes) for 30 minutes. I think this was done to shorten
the down times for ping tests. After 30 minutes, the pinger reverts to its
normal cycle.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">GLH</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span class="q"><b>From:</b> Josh Luthman
[mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>] <br></span><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 22,
2007 6:18 PM</font><div><span class="e" id="q_11679142d58a8461_3"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk
</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: RE: Re:
[hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions<br></font></span></div><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_11679142d58a8461_5">
<div></div>Two hints:<br><br>1) When a host goes red, it always goes green
after 28-32 seconds or 43-46 seconds.<br>2) When a host is red divide the
number of seconds it has been unchanged by the amount of polls. You'll
never get a a remainder greater then a minute. <br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hubbard,
Greg L</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">greg.hubbard@eds.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">"Hobbit
polls every 30 - 45 seconds" -- really? How did you measure
this?</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span><b>From:</b> Josh Luthman
[mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>] <br></span><b>Sent:</b>
Thursday, November 22, 2007 6:03 PM</font>
<div><span><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk
</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: RE: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit CONN
questions<br></font></span></div><br></div>
<div><span>
<div></div>ARP can't be the problem - ARP will cache the result for 2
minutes and clear it if unused. If the result is used and is valid
again within the 2 minutes, it is cached for 10 minutes. Hobbit
polls every 30-45 seconds so ARP is not a problem. <br><br>Having switch
from using hobbitping to fping I think the graphs are going to look far
superior now. Things on the same switch are no longer 30ms but 1ms
=)<br><br>I now understand why there are warnings not to use hobbitping,
but I don't understand how the command line is getting such normal results
while the graphs are getting such high results. Does anyone know why
this is? <br><br>Josh<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hubbard, Greg L</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">greg.hubbard@eds.com
</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Don't forget the ARP protocol -- if a destination is not in the
local system's ARP cache, the lower layer code in the IP stack discards
the first packet and generates an ARP broadcast. The assumption (I
guess) is that the discarded packet will be retransmitted. You
might look for the "knobs" on fping to control timeouts and retry
counts.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">GLH</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Josh Luthman [mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>
] <br><b>Sent:</b>
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:13 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: RE: Re:
[hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions<br></font><br></div>
<div><span>
<div></div>Concerning fping options, I have some RRD graphs that show
enormous pings to some of our customer's (upwards of 800ms) because as
the radio doesn't pass any traffic it sits there and when someone
first looks for it, it acts kind of dumb. <br><br>What delegates how
often the FPING command is issued? I'm not looking for the
arguments for fping itself, but rather how hobbitd kicks fping into
gear.<br><br>I would like to increase the rate of the pings and see if
that helps. I'm running a continuous ping over night to see if
that changes the graph or if it really does spike to that outrageous
height. <br><br>Josh<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:johan.boye@latecoere.fr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">johan.boye@latecoere.fr</a>
</b> < <a href="mailto:johan.boye@latecoere.fr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">johan.boye@latecoere.fr </a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>
-----Message d'origine-----<br>> De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto: <a href="mailto:henrik@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">henrik@hswn.dk</a>]<br>> Envoyé : vendredi 9
novembre 2007 08:23<br>> À : <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br>> Objet : Re: RE: Re:
[hobbit] Hobbit CONN questions <br>><br>> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007
at 08:14:32AM +0100,<br>> <a href="mailto:johan.boye@latecoere.fr" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">johan.boye@latecoere.fr</a> wrote:<br>> > I'm
just wondering what triggers in the Hobbit code is used<br>> to
make a RED ping status :<br>> > - after just one
no echo-reply each 5min ?<br>> > - after a couple
of no echo-reply ? How much ?<br>> > - What is the
timeout used to declare the host unreachable ? <br>><br>> It
goes red when the ping utility that is used (fping or
hobbitping)<br>> says that the host did not respond. How many
pings are sent<br>> and what the<br>> timeouts are is decided
by the ping tool; see their man-pages for <br>> details. You can
tune this through commandline options for the ping<br>> tool,
these go into the FPINGCMD setting in
hobbitserver.cfg<br>><br>><br>> Henrik<br><br>Got it,
options must be put in the hobbitserver.cfg . Thanks for the
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