[hobbit] Hobbitping/fping behaviour

[Rob MacGregor]

On 8/24/06, GALLIOT Guillaume <Guillaume.GALLIOT at but.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have updated my hobbit installation from 4.1.2 to 4.2.0
> The new hobbitping gives different results in the web interface (about 40ms
> latency on a local network) than fping (0.15 ms),i tried to reproduce these
> results with ping,fping & hobbitping but they give me same results on
> command line (0.15ms)
>
> fping -e msrv999lno001
> msrv999lno001 is alive (0.16 ms)
>
> PING msrv999lno001 (10.0.4.173) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from msrv999lno001 (10.0.4.173): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.126 ms
> 64 bytes from msrv999lno001 (10.0.4.173): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.113 ms
>
> /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping 10.0.4.173
> 10.0.4.173 is alive (0.18 ms)
>
> In the web interface I get 44 ms
>
> I reverted to fping and results are now the same on command line and web
> interface.
>
> Does anyone has the same issue ?

Yes, I saw exactly the same - hobbitping used by hobbit had a delay of
tens of ms, used on the command line had a delay of fractions of an
ms.

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