Quote from: pseudonym3k on February 17, 2026, 05:43:21 PMQuote from: demyers on February 09, 2026, 05:23:36 PMThis might not be your problem, but I've found that some providers, particularly wireless providers, sometimes drop the abnormally small ping packets sent by dpinger. For all of my gateways I set "Data Length" to 56 (you'll need to switch on "Advanced Mode" to see this option).Just came in here again to say changing the data length to 56 has solved the issue for me (as far as dpinger giving false positives). I have been externally monitoring my own IP as well as the IP I am using for the monitor. The few failures I get now are due to monitor IP unreachable but my own connection was working.
I still need to think on monitoring as a whole in my situation. It is useful to me to know when my connection was disrupted, but only if actually true. If dpinger could check several IPs in series, and only if all fail assume the gateway unusable, it would mitigate the false positives from a single monitor IP being unreachable.
(Caused by NewConnectionError("HTTPSConnection(host='<hostname>', port=443): Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 65] No route to host")))
sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI-fast
sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=kvmclock
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
kern.timecounter.hardware: kvmclock
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.timecounter.choice
kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-fast(900) kvmclock(975) dummy(-1000000)
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.timecounter.fast_gettime
kern.timecounter.fast_gettime: 1
root@OPNsense:~ #
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.eventtimer.timer
kern.eventtimer.timer: LAPIC
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.eventtimer.choice
kern.eventtimer.choice: LAPIC(600) i8254(100) RTC(0)
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic
kern.eventtimer.periodic: 0
root@OPNsense:~ #
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency: 500003658
root@OPNsense:~ # sysctl kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality
kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality: 600
tcp_timer_rexmt
tcp_timer_enter
softclock_call_cc
softclock_threadroot@OPNsense:~ # vmstat -i | grep timer
cpu0:timer 8789276 829
cpu1:timer 312606 29
cpu2:timer 316936 30
cpu3:timer 281377 27
sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
sysctl kern.timecounter.choice
sysctl kern.timecounter.fast_gettime
sysctl kern.eventtimer.timer
sysctl kern.eventtimer.choice
sysctl kern.eventtimer.periodic
sysctl kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.frequency
sysctl kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality