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      grandrivers
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      how hard would it be to tweek the diagnostics ping so it would go higher than 10 say 50 or 100 ?

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        cmb
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        Not hard but it's not a good idea. The page's return can take up to 1 second per attempt. 50 could take nearly 1 minute for the page to return. Anything beyond 10 isn't really reasonable for that type of page as they currently stand, there are a limited number of PHP processes, and long-running things like that can completely prevent the web interface from functioning. SSH is the answer for long-running commands.

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          grandrivers
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          i understand the time to return also the ssh is a bit of a pia with multiwan
          not that it overly matters was just a thought, none of the isps trust anything from router although the router has always proved true, last problem was blamed on owning more than 1 apple product

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            heper
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            ssh is a pia with multiwan? how is that ?

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              gerdesj
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              @grandrivers:

              i understand the time to return also the ssh is a bit of a pia with multiwan
              not that it overly matters was just a thought, none of the isps trust anything from router although the router has always proved true, last problem was blamed on owning more than 1 apple product

              If you need more ping for your buck then perhaps you could use Diagnostics -> Command Prompt along with a good read of https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ping&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+10.2-stable&arch=default&format=html

              Cheers
              Jon

              PS Note the -g -G -h options.  Great for MTU testing.  It would be nice if the Linux ping learned how to do ping sweeps sigh.

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                cmb
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                @heper:

                ssh is a pia with multiwan? how is that ?

                I think he means the ping command is, as you need the '-S $source_IP'.

                @Jon:

                If you need more ping for your buck then perhaps you could use Diagnostics -> Command Prompt along with a good read of https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ping&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+10.2-stable&arch=default&format=html

                Yeah but be really careful to not run a never-ending ping (or any other command) there, you'll have to get in SSH or console and kill it.

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