Apinger "again"
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Hi Stephen,
Thanks will do, but as per other post http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,36643.msg194874.html#msg194874
then its 1s (added a switch between Cable Modem and pfSense a laptop with wireshark where I see its 1s or less) and I have changed to ping another address, but I really really need to get the ping time changed, I tried to add 60s to apinger.conf but that had no effect.
Steen -
You have a RTT of 1s? (1000ms) :o
Here I am seeing ~25ms on one wan and 6-7ms on the other.
What did you change in apinger.conf?
Steve
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Hi,
There might be something I not fully understood.
The log from wireshark shows the ping from apinger at each seconds, see attached file.
Also look for record 5161, 5212 and 5243 they are the reason for me to have stopped ICMPs from leaving the box, mainly because I am not 100% what it means "5161","2011-06-13 18:29:29.539365","207.204.241.59","200.82.252.149","ICMP","174","Destination unreachable (Host administratively prohibited)". I got a bit surprised when I started to see "prohibited" messages.For apinger the only "hand" change I did were to try to change rrd interval to 60s, but that did not change the ping frequency - guess wrong place to do.
I would think a minute or two will be fine and will limit the flood of pings, but how to change the frequency?Ideas?
Steen
[apinger.conf SH.txt](/public/imported_attachments/1/apinger.conf SH.txt)
[Capture pfSense 13 June 2011 01 SH.txt](/public/imported_attachments/1/Capture pfSense 13 June 2011 01 SH.txt) -
Hello,
Really really need to get help to change the apinger frequency - anyone please. :'( :-[
Thanks Steen
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Why do you need to change the frequency? If you have the thresholds set appropriately for your connection you will only get anything in the logs when the latency/packet loss changes to something higher?
Steve
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Hi Stephen,
Not worried over my logs, but I do not feel comfortable by hammering out a ping every each second, my ISP is already making noise over this.
Secondly my connection is not the more better, so often the connection is down or gives very poor response.
For me a ping each one minute or two will be good, but I cannot find the place to change the ping frequency. Tried in the aping.conf, but whatever I did don't seams to have any effect.I tried to change here:
target default {How often the probe should be sent
interval 1s
to, 60s, 120s, 180s but no change the ping frequency.The rest of aping.conf looks like this:
How many replies should be used to compute average delay
for controlling "delay" alarms
avg_delay_samples 10
How many probes should be used to compute average loss
avg_loss_samples 50
The delay (in samples) after which loss is computed
without this delays larger than interval would be treated as loss
avg_loss_delay_samples 20
Names of the alarms that may be generated for the target
alarms "down","delay","loss"
Location of the RRD
#rrd file "/var/db/rrd/apinger-%t.rrd"
}
alarm delay "WANdelay" {
delay_low 400ms
delay_high 1000ms
}
alarm down "WANdown" {
time 30s
}BR// Steen
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Heh when 1 ping every 1secs is too much?
You push packets into that network at a much faster speed and the uplink is suppose to handle! -
Yes, agree…
But my uplink is often <128Mbps, and it have high latency and disconnects often, modem reboots, etc., etc., I am trying to work with the ISP (who basically don't give a damn due to lack of competition in my area), and for this I do not want to ping him too often. Using VisualRoute I try to show him his latency in his network, and connection (Up/Down) that often are 50/60% less than what I subscribe/pay for.
So if and there is a possibility from what I have read I would like to change the ping frequency.BR// Steen
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I assume you mean 128Kbps? ;)
Can you ping your cable modem instead?
Steve
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oops ::) :o :-[ forgot the 0.
Yes, I can, but the Cable Modem changes address whenever the modem reboots, so I would have to manually to look up and change.
Pinging the GW is great, but for a period I would like to send the pings less often that is all. -
[…] but I do not feel comfortable by hammering out a ping every each second, my ISP is already making noise over this.
Check this post: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,35531.msg183946/topicseen.html#msg183946
It works for me. Pinging over a 3G connection every second including every DNS request going to every backup WAN
generates some traffic over the 3G connection. -
Hello Veni,
MANY THANKS!
Just what I been looking for!
Tried 60s first when confirmed to be sent each 60s then I changed to 5s!
BR// Steen
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[…] I changed to 5s!
I forgot to mention that you need to reset this value every time after you do an update/upgrade of pfSense,
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Hi Veni,
Thanks, I already found out the "hard way", but many thanks for coming back!
Take care - Steen
