Error in ping plugin

[ut0mt8]

Hello,

The doc (and the code) mention :

ping timeout, in s. 0 == no timeout (ping -t )
timeout = 0.0

That is absolutely not true, at least on debian linux ,
-t is the flag for specifie ttl,
-W is the right option to use

Thks.

[sparrc]

thanks for the report

[xor-gate]

Under the hood the ping plugin is not really cross-platform because it exec's directly the system /bin/ping. See also #496

[sparrc]

closing in favor of #496

[HackedServer]

Since the ping plugin isn't going to be replaced with a Go ping plugin, this issue should be reopened and resolved.

[sparrc]

true, will do 👍

[xor-gate]

@sparrc so as I can see the native golang ping implementation has issues with reporting the incorrect latency?

[sparrc]

@xor-gate, nope, Telegraf isn't using a native go implementation, there is just one user who seems to have reported differences between executing ping via bash vs. executing via Telegraf, which I still can't explain.