Issue with ping to external host

[SimplyS]

OK, I have searched this site, and Googled, but still found nothing that can help.

I am trying to use Cacti to analyse some network instability. As such, I have it installed on my NAS and I want to check stability by pinging three different hosts : the default gateway (cabled), a printer (wireless) and an Internet site (Internet connectivity)

The first two cause no trouble at all, but whatever external site I chosse, I get "ICMP ping Timed out". I have checked the logs, nothing gives any indication there.

I have run the perl script manually from the command line and it works just fine. Have done the same for one of my other hosts and the results are the same. So in other words, a copy/paste of the poller cmd works

Can someone please help ? Happy to provide more info if required

TIA

[phalek]

Hi

Which user is Cacti(poller) running as ?
Which user did you use to manually test this ?

[SimplyS]

Answer to both is root