hosts with latency between 500ms and 1,000ms always show 25% packet loss

[rocket-data]

Hosts with latency between 500ms and 1,000ms always show 25% packet loss. I suspect the ping timeout auto-tunes itself and the first timeout is set to 500ms. Can this be changed, perhaps in a settings file? I need to test over satellite links where the latency can be close to 2,000ms when there's congestion. Thanks.

[nefilim]

ahh ok - perhaps the problem is that the value to -w (see https://linux.die.net/man/8/ping) is hard coded to 2 seconds, i'll look into making this configurable in the config file - should get to it this weekend