[smokeping-users] CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP probe and IOS 15.x

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Mateusz,

I set the timeout to 10, so that even when you had only a single
ping it could never be a problem ...

since normally you have more, 5 works too.

cheers
tobi

Yesterday Mateusz Blaszczyk wrote:

> On 9 March 2010 16:39, Mateusz Blaszczyk <blahu77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Tobias,
> >
> >> iiks, this is a bit twisted I see ... without going into brain
> >> surgery, how about this:
> >>
> >> Index: CiscoRTTMonEchoICMP.pm
> >> ===================================================================
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> +             _default => $pingtimeout+10,
> >> +             _doc => "How long a single RTTMonEcho ICMP 'ping' take at maximum plus 10 seconds to spare. Since we control our own timeout the only purpose of this is to not have us killed by the ping method from basefork.",
> >> +
> >
> > I understand that this is a mistake, it should be
> >
> > +             _default => $pingtimeout+5,
> > +             _doc => "How long a single RTTMonEcho ICMP 'ping' take
> > at maximum plus 5 seconds to spare. Since we control our own timeout
> > the only purpose of this is to not have us killed by the ping method
> > from basefork.",
> >
> > according to the below:
> >
> >> the idea is to set the timeout 'per ping' to pingtimeout+5 seconds
> >> ... this may be a bit of a long timeout but since we control our own time anyway it will never hit.
> >>
> >
> > apart from that as I understand the code it looks ok.
> > I will test it now and let you know the results
> >
>
> works. the probe is not killed by basefork, without any timeout option
> in config-file.
> ... with "_default => $pingtimeout+5" settings.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> -mat
>
>

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