Timeout for ping in check-gateway too short

RouterOS General
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Hi,

i’m using the check-gateway function to check if my DSL line is up or not.

But: If the line is full (i only got ADSL) the latency to the checked gateway is surely high. Now the RouterOS declares the Route as invalid since it wasn’t able to get a reply. Maybe it would be a good idea to make the timeout a definable value. At the moment it seems that it’s hardcoded.

Or is there anything else i can do?

Thanks.

Greetings,

Joerg

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you can use netwatch and make your own custom scripts. you can also use check-gateway=arp instead of ping, seems to be more stable since the ARP entry is typically there and doesn’t time out until 30 seconds or so.