perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Gaetano,

It looks like the ping command isn’t outputting anything, can you try running 
the following by hand:

ping -c 10 -i 1.000000 -W 1 -I 192.168.3.195 192.168.12.103

Cheers,
Aaron

> On Jan 22, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Gaetano Vocca 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Aaron,
> here is the result:
>  
> root@rhnan
>  ~ # bwping -T ping -v -c 192.168.12.103
> Messages being sent to syslog(user,err)
> bwping: Using 192.168.3.195 as the address for local sender
> bwping: Using 192.168.12.103 as the address for remote receiver
> bwping: Available in-common: ping owamp
> bwping: Using tool: ping
> bwping: Server '192.168.12.103' accepted test request at time 
> 1421933525.644205
> bwping: Client 'localhost' accepted test request at time 1421933525.644205
> bwping: 20 seconds until test results available
>  
> SENDER START
> bwctl: start_endpoint: 3630922321.037754
> bwctl: run_endpoint: receiver: 192.168.12.103
> bwctl: run_endpoint: sender: 192.168.3.195
> bwctl: exec_line: ping -c 10 -i 1.000000 -W 1 -I 192.168.3.195 
> 192.168.12.103
> bwctl: run_tool: tester: ping
> bwctl: run_tool: receiver: 192.168.12.103
> bwctl: run_tool: sender: 192.168.3.195
> bwctl: start_tool: 3630922325.644361
> bwctl: stop_tool: 3630922334.728373
> bwctl: stop_endpoint: 3630922336.800635
>  
> SENDER END
>  
> Thanks
> Gaetano
>  
> Da: Aaron Brown 
> [mailto:]
>  
> Inviato: giovedì 22 gennaio 2015 14:30
> A: Gaetano Vocca
> Cc: 
> 
> Oggetto: Re: [perfsonar-user] Ping test failing on Centos 6.x
>  
> Hey Gaetano, 
>  
> Could you try running bwping with the “-v” flag?
>  
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>  
>> On Jan 22, 2015, at 7:50 AM, Gaetano Vocca 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>>  
>> Hi all,
>> I tried to use bwping for a round trip delay test from a Centos 6 machine 
>> towards a Debian (Raspbian) one and it fails with the following output:
>>  
>> pi@rhnan
>>  ~ $ bwping -T ping -c 192.168.12.103
>> bwping: Using tool: ping
>> bwping: 21 seconds until test results available
>>  
>> SENDER START
>>  
>> SENDER END
>>  
>> Checking the logs I noticed this error
>>  
>> <RECV_OUTPUT>';
>> Jan 22 13:42:33 rhnan bwctld (INPUT): $VAR1 = 'bwctl: nothing to exec for 
>> ping server</RE
>> CV_OUTPUT>'
>>  
>> This happens also if bwping is run as root. Bwping version is 1.5.2-10 and 
>> it was installed by package, I mean not from the sources recompiled. Does 
>> anybody have suggestions?
>>  
>>  
>> Thanks
>> Gaetano