Apinger "detects" 100% packetloss every few days

phil.davis

I haven't worked out a good pattern for when this happens. I run most of my pfSense behind ADSL routers that have the real internet connection. So I have Alternate Monitor IP set on these. The numbers for %age packet loss and latency can go a bit off at times - I wish I knew what sequence of real packet loss and latency over time can cause the average calculations to go awry.
Now that pfSense-tools has been closed off, I can't see the details of the apinger source code mods for pfSense, so no chance to help find any problem.

doktornotor

There is NOTHING the community could help with as long as the closed source apinger stuff is concerned. Go file a bug!

Supermule

I have this happen as well on 2.1.5 but a reload of the GUI brings it back online….

Could it be widget related?

henriquejensen

@Supermule:

I have this happen as well on 2.1.5 but a reload of the GUI brings it back online….

Could it be widget related?

I have the same problem :-[

ncolunga

Same problem here, sometimes i get values over 100%. I have noticed that this used to happen on servers with WIMAX routers, this routers has a bigger trend to go down, i think that apinger goes crazy sometimes when a gateway goes down and up.

Supermule

I only see it on WAN DHCP connections. Not on Static IP's at all.

It runs very smooth on that setup using 2.1.4.

My home setup has issues, but not the datacenters.

bennyc

just adding my 2cents:

I have the inverse of Supermule:

Home (dhcp) no issues at all
Office (dhcp but static lease) apinger behaves quite odd.

Same isp/technology, so not sure it is to pin on the dhcp.

Both running 2.1.5.

Supermule

I have turned on time sync between host and client on ESXi. I havent had the issue at all since last night

Oct 17 19:59:33 apinger: SIGHUP received, reloading configuration.
Oct 17 19:59:32 apinger: Starting Alarm Pinger, apinger(21363)
Oct 17 18:56:57 apinger: alarm canceled: WAN_DHCP(62.243.131.197) *** delay ***
Oct 17 18:56:49 apinger: ALARM: WAN_DHCP(62.243.131.197) *** delay ***

dennypage

My installation is completely static, currently on 2.1.5.

Interestingly, I've gone from having the problem every couple of days, to not having had the problem in 3 weeks. Probably because my connection has been very stable with little to no loss and no spikes of latency (which is what usually sets apinger off).

Guest

Goto

System -> Routing -> Gateways

choose Gateway and increase

Latency Threshold and

Package Loss Threshold

(maybe even "Down")

to e.g. 300-2000 ms and see if it helps….