[Nagios-users] check_ping oddities

[Dale B. <nag...@da...>]

Hi,

My check_ping is defined like this:

define command{
        command_name                    check_ping
        command_line                    $USER1$/check_ping -H
$HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p 6 -t 20
}

Yet I get output at times like:

PING WARNING - Packet loss = 71%, RTA = 89.44 ms
(warn is 60%, crit is 80%, so WARNING is correct).

and

PING WARNING - Packet loss = 25%, RTA = 17.44 ms
(warn is 20% and crit is 40%, so WARNING is correct).


And now to the question.  How can 71% or 25% be a result when 6 packets
are sent?

Thanks,

Dale