diff -ruBbd cacti-0.8.7g/lib/ping.php cacti-0.8.7g-patched/lib/ping.php

--- cacti-0.8.7g/lib/ping.php	2010-07-09 18:33:46.000000000 -0400

+++ cacti-0.8.7g-patched/lib/ping.php	2010-08-31 20:31:22.000000000 -0400

@@ -577,12 +577,16 @@

 				switch(socket_select($r = array($this->socket), $w = array($this->socket), $f = array($this->socket), $to_sec, $to_usec)){

 				case 2:

 					/* connection refused */

-					$this->ping_response = "TCP ping connection refused";

-					$this->ping_status   = "down";

+					$this->time = $this->get_time($this->precision);

+

+					if (($this->time*1000) <= $this->timeout) {

+						$this->ping_response = "TCP Ping connection refused (" . $this->time*1000 . " ms)";

+						$this->ping_status   = $this->time*1000;

+					}

 					$this->close_socket();

-					return false;

+					return true; /* "connection refused" says: host is alive (else ping would time out) */

 				case 1:

 					/* connected, so calculate the total time and return */

 					$this->time = $this->get_time($this->precision);