ping problems
Subhendu Ghosh
sghosh at sghosh.org
Wed Jan 8 22:32:48 CET 2003
It is possible for a network to loose some packets and not others...
If you suspect a link is getting flakey - with intermittent high packet
losses - run another perf app like SmokePing to gather some history about
packet loss on a path.
-sg
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Sylvain Ouellet wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have nagios configured and everything works fine.
>
> Now what bothers me is that sometimes nagios pings a systems and gives
> me a 20% packet loss. Now when I do a ping to the same system from the
> same machine using the ping command, everything seems to be just fine. I
> can let the ping command go for 15 minutes and I'll get no packet loss
> but nagios will report a 20 or 40% packet loss. It doesn't happen every
> day but it happens just enough to make me nervious.
>
> So is there anything wrong or any known problems, glitches.
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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