Yes, same problem here. Could easily ping from linux box desired host, but netwatch shows it as down. I though is was a router pretty high load issue, but after your posts it seems that it is not. I wrote a little script as a workaround for that.
:local time
:local mailsent
:set time [/system clock get time]
:set mailsent false
:while ([/ping HOST IP ADDRESS count=1] = 0) do={
:if ( !( $mailsent ) ) do={
:if ( [/system clock get time] - $time >= 1m ) do={
/tool e-mail send to="MY_EMAIL" subject="host is down"
:set mailsent true
}
}
:delay 10s
}
:if ($mailsent) do={
/tool e-mail send to="MY_EMAIL" subject="host is up"
}
E-mail and sms sending is what personally I need from netwatch, but you may substitute actions with any other. The thing is that script sends an e-mail only if host is down for a certain amount of time, 1 minute here, but checks the host status every 10 sec. So long outage (1 min) never happens due to netwatch.
. I think there are still problems with these routing protocols.
