From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:45:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: legacy-gateway-latency4: Send a brief burst of packets
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d6caafb220eb314f8452e6203ec4e5031b041e8;p=telemetry.git

legacy-gateway-latency4: Send a brief burst of packets

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
---

diff --git a/src/daemon/sources/legacy-gateway-latency4.c b/src/daemon/sources/legacy-gateway-latency4.c
index 8ee4c7a..c799425 100644
--- a/src/daemon/sources/legacy-gateway-latency4.c
+++ b/src/daemon/sources/legacy-gateway-latency4.c
@@ -169,7 +169,15 @@ static int legacy_gateway_latency_on_success(td_ctx* ctx,
 
 static int do_arping(td_ctx* ctx, td_source* source, const char* address) {
 	const char* argv[] = {
-		"arping", "-c3", address, NULL,
+		"arping",
+
+		// Send ten packets
+		"-c 10",
+
+		// Wait up to 100ms between packets
+		"-W 0.1",
+
+		address, NULL,
 	};
 
 	return td_source_run_command(source, argv, legacy_gateway_latency_on_success, source);
@@ -177,7 +185,21 @@ static int do_arping(td_ctx* ctx, td_source* source, const char* address) {
 
 static int do_ping(td_ctx* ctx, td_source* source, const char* address) {
 	const char* argv[] = {
-		"ping", "-c3", address, NULL,
+		"ping",
+
+		// Send ten packets
+		"-c 10",
+
+		// Wait up to 100ms between packets
+		"-i 0.1",
+
+		// Don't reverse-resolve the IP address
+		"-n",
+
+		// The address
+		address,
+
+		NULL,
 	};
 
 	return td_source_run_command(source, argv, legacy_gateway_latency_on_success, source);