[mrtg] Re: Passing Ping options while using mrtg-ping-probe

[vk2ydh]

I found I needed to pass the -w 10 option to the linux pinger to stop the
occasional ping hang. Check the ping man page for more details.


Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Takumi Yamane" <yamtak at b-session.com>
To: <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 8:22 AM
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Passing Ping options while using mrtg-ping-probe


> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:34:38 -0500, evans.mj.1 at pg.com wrote
> in <OF3BE44C2E.43815138-ON05256E23.006AC525-85256E23.006B8A52 at na.pg.
> com>:
> > Can anyone tell me how to pass options to the ping command while
> > using mrtg-ping-probe?
> ...
> > I am trying to limit the timeout between each ping so that
>
> The script accepts "-t" option as timeout value.
>
> A line from my working config file is like this:
>   Target[ping-target]: `mrtg-ping-probe -k 3 -t 10 -s target`
>
> But I'm not sure if it's really working, since the script sometimes
> hungs up forever and requires force termination :)
> # I'm currently using v2.3 of the script with a *little* modification,
> # it didn't work correctly on my Linux box.
>
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> Takumi Yamane <yamtak at b-session.com>
>
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