Hi! On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:09:22 +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: > On Wednesday, 13. January 2010, you wrote: > > on linux, iputils-ping is frequently used. It is also the default one > > for nagios plugins. Therefore nagios is currently uninstallable on > > GNU/kFreeBSD, see #555532. > > > > For proper funcionality of nagios is needed to implement this option > > of iputils-ping: > > on behalf of the Nagios maintainers ... without this deadline option, we run > into the 10 seconds timout such often, that it is not possible to use the > host > alive check in a productive environment, as there are to much false positives.
> > -w deadline > > Specify a timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of > > how many packets have been sent or received. In this case ping > > does not stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for > > deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some > > error notification from network. This (-w, --timeout) is already implemented in the latest upstream release which I should finish preparing and uploading to Debian. > also really good would be: > > -W timeout > Time to wait for a response, in seconds. The option affects only > timeout in absense of any responses, otherwise ping waits for two > RTTs. This has been briefly commented on the upstream mailing list but no one has offered code yet, if you'd really like this as well, could you file a new bug report on inetutils-ping, so that we don't clutter this bug report? thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
