Pings above 1000ms are dropped?

RouterOS General
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We run PPPoE servers on our wireless ap’s. I notice that when opening a winbox terminal window and pinging a client that it “times out” all pings that are over 1000ms. When pinging from non-mikrotik devices, it shows the +1000ms pings that otherwise times out on RouterOS. Is there a way to change this behavior? I know that +1000ms pings are not good at all. But I’m afraid it is causing all my PPPoE servers to time-out on their keep-alives and log clients off and on when latency is high.

Eric

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You can use the interval setting at the terminal to specify how long to wait for a response before timing out.
The default is 1000ms, and max is 5s.

/ping address=192.168.1.1 interval=5s

This also works in scripts as well. I ran into the same issue with a satellite link of +1500ms, but after setting to 5s, the only timeouts I get now are when remote end is actually down! :slight_smile: