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

[Mateusz Blaszczyk]

Hi Tobias,

Good thinking.

Best Regards

-mat

On 10 March 2010 05:47, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> 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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