Comment 12 for bug 67868

I have watchdog configured to ping 10.1.16.1 (the gateway address), and to check for traffic on eth0. I have the watchdog init script set to run watchdog with the '-q' and '-v' switches, so I can see what's going on without my machine being forcibly restarted.

Anywhere from %30 to %50 of the time, watchdog's pings come back as "Host unreachable". Howevever, this information seems to be inaccurate: If I run the `ping` command in a separate window, I can see 0% packet loss on pings to 10.1.16.1, even while watchdog is reporting problems.