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Title: [SOLVED] Switch apinger to dpinger possible?
Post by: ittchmh on January 26, 2016, 06:32:15 pm

I have same issue in OPNSense like in pfSense
Issue and potiential fix for apinger monitoring of IPv6 GIF interfaces (https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=104240.0)

(http://i.imgur.com/BdafBSF.png)

After apinger restart all ok

(http://i.imgur.com/NIIfb9P.png)

Currently I have other issues in pfSense with apinger, I fixed it like this
pfsense 2.1-release - Gateway aPinger broken? (https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=69533.msg584074#msg584074)

Code: [Select]

<?php
require_once("/etc/inc/service-utils.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/globals.inc");
require_once("/etc/inc/gwlb.inc");
$log_file = "/var/log/apinger.log";

$log_date = date('d/m/Y H:i:s', time());


$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++;

}
}
}
if ($counter > 0) {

service_control_restart(apinger,restartservice);
$log_data = 'Counter = '.$counter. ' date: '.$log_date. ' | service restarted!'. PHP_EOL;
file_put_contents($log_file, $log_data, FILE_APPEND);
} 
?>


OPNSense running as guest on Hyper-V host

Title: Re: Switch apinger to dpinger possible?
Post by: franco on January 27, 2016, 10:24:30 am

We're watching the dpinger efforts (and have helped in the beginning with the FreeBSD porting), but we have no immediate plans.

Does calling /status_services.php?mode=restartservice&service=apinger not suffice in your scenario, or is this a cron job?

Hyper-V is quite fragile when it comes to clocks and NTP, the suggestion from the pfSense forum sounds interesting... have you ever tried to "disarm" NTP by providing an invalid server?

System: Settings: General: NTP server: "no"

Title: Re: Switch apinger to dpinger possible?
Post by: ittchmh on January 27, 2016, 10:44:20 am

This is cron job

If at least one gw has ping > 500 service restarted

After yestarday I think that all the problems linked to time issues

Quote from: franco on January 27, 2016, 10:24:30 am

Hyper-V is quite fragile when it comes to clocks and NTP, the suggestion from the pfSense forum sounds interesting... have you ever tried to "disarm" NTP by providing an invalid server?

System: Settings: General: NTP server: "no"

I will try this.

Rising Probe Interval to 10 sec of GW also helped

on pfSense same Probe Interval but I have many issues with apinger on different Hyper-V hosts

I will try to rise Probe Interval there...

sorry for my English

Title: Re: Switch apinger to dpinger possible?
Post by: franco on January 27, 2016, 12:51:13 pm

No need to be sorry, looking forward to your feedback :)

Title: Re: Switch apinger to dpinger possible?
Post by: ittchmh on January 27, 2016, 07:08:00 pm

Hi!

Problem with apinger only on VMs!
To eliminate this issue only one time provider must be enabled!
On Hyper-V VM
(http://i.imgur.com/kMWECSO.png)

Or ntpd inside VM Guest

If Hyper-V host time wrong even few seconds, guest VM updating time from NTP server, after that VM Integration service adjusting guest VM clock immediately to Hyper-V time value.
(http://i.imgur.com/KjxokpP.png)

And this breaking apinger

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Switch apinger to dpinger possible?
Post by: franco on April 21, 2016, 10:40:16 pm

I've started some cleanups over at:

https://github.com/opnsense/apinger

What I can see is that gettimeofday() is used for measurements. We need to switch to a monotonic time source in order to fix that. 8)

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Switch apinger to dpinger possible?
Post by: franco on May 01, 2016, 07:48:09 pm

This was fixed a few days ago in our apinger repository:

https://github.com/opnsense/apinger/commit/9a330e42b79f9bf4fcb6b3b34560194e87206575

Been running this for a few days without an issue, we may as well push this with 16.1.13 next week. :)