Pfsense 2.1-release - Gateway aPinger broken?

pubmsu

Please report it and discuss in the following 2.2 thread:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78502

naras

@pubmsu:

Please report it and discuss in the following 2.2 thread:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78502

I already did.

Supermule

I have this Cron job running every 5 minutes and for now it has been running no isssues.

pkill /usr/local/sbin/apinger -c /var/etc/apinger.conf

It seems some sort of buffer is filled on WAN DHCP interfaces and it begins to "suffer".

I havent got any issues on static WAN interfaces.

Derelict

I just had to disable gateway monitoring on a pfSense in a datacenter because apinger started seeing 6% loss no matter what was going on. Steady - every sample. 2.1.5 i386.

pubmsu

Please report it and discuss in the following 2.2 thread:

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78502

hmh

@krylou:

I`ve found temporary solution - restarting apinger every 5 minutes.

Open shell via putty

Go to /usr/local/www
and create file apinger.php with the following content:
require_once("/etc/inc/service-utils.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/globals.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/vslb.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/gwlb.inc");

service_control_restart(apinger,restartservice)
?>

chmod 755 apinger.php

To run it manually you can just open http://pfsense/apinger.php

Then install cron package via pfsense UI and add new job:
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/apinger.php

Little extended script:


require_once("/etc/inc/service-utils.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/globals.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/gwlb.inc");

$counter = 0;
$a_gateways = return_gateways_array();
$gateways_status = array();
$gateways_status = return_gateways_status(true);

foreach ($a_gateways as $gname => $gateway) {
	if ($gateways_status[$gname]) {
		$str_data = $gateways_status[$gname]['delay'];
		$pos = substr($str_data,0,strpos($str_data, "ms"));
		if (floatval($pos) > 500 ) {
			$counter++;
			#print_r($counter ." - ". $pos ."\r\n");
		}	
	}	
}
if ($counter > 0) {
	service_control_restart(apinger,restartservice);
}
?>

A Former User

@hmh:

Little extended script:


require_once("/etc/inc/service-utils.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/globals.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/gwlb.inc");

$counter = 0;
$a_gateways = return_gateways_array();
$gateways_status = array();
$gateways_status = return_gateways_status(true);

foreach ($a_gateways as $gname => $gateway) {
	if ($gateways_status[$gname]) {
		$str_data = $gateways_status[$gname]['delay'];
		$pos = substr($str_data,0,strpos($str_data, "ms"));
		if (floatval($pos) > 500 ) {
			$counter++;
			#print_r($counter ." - ". $pos ."\r\n");
		}	
	}	
}
if ($counter > 0) {
	service_control_restart(apinger,restartservice);
}
?>

What does this do ?

A Former User

btw. This:

@krylou:

I`ve found temporary solution - restarting apinger every 5 minutes.

Open shell via putty

Go to /usr/local/www
and create file apinger.php with the following content:
require_once("/etc/inc/service-utils.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/globals.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/vslb.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/gwlb.inc");

service_control_restart(apinger,restartservice)
?>

chmod 755 apinger.php

To run it manually you can just open http://pfsense/apinger.php

Then install cron package via pfsense UI and add new job:
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/apinger.php

and this :

@TechSavvySam:

In the meantime, I'm going to create a CRON job to restart apinger service at given intervals. BTW, this command will restart it:

/usr/local/sbin/pfSsh.php playback svc restart apinger

Both kill my RD Graphs. Is that just me ?

kamran

**Just disable NTPd time sync daemon.

apinger wil become stable.**

David_W

@kamran:

**Just disable NTPd time sync daemon.

apinger wil become stable.**

That might help if you're running pfSense in a VM, but the problems with apinger are nowhere near that simple to solve.

apinger has been replaced by dpinger in pfSense 2.3. Though 2.3 is still in beta, the core functionality is now very stable and it has a lot of worthwhile enhancements and fixes over 2.2.x.

Packages are still a mixed bag on 2.3 - some have been converted, some are available but haven't had a proper GUI conversion and others are not available at this point.

If you want to try 2.3, I strongly recommend backing up your configuration and making sure you have working 2.2.6 install media to hand before upgrading. That way, you can revert easily to 2.2.6 if necessary.