Problem with ping-check?

[Ton Voon]

On 15 Oct 2007, at 14:20, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> True. AFAIR that's the primary reason check_ping is still around.  
> Perhaps it
> would have been better to put all effort into improving check_ping  
> instead of
> creating a replacement for it, especially in light of parallellized  
> host checks
> in nagios 3

I'm fine with supporting both check_ping and check_icmp. One general  
aim of the plugins is to better use system calls, rather than  
wrapping external commands, but in the case of setuid root, I think  
it is reasonable to allow both. And check_icmp has some useful  
functionality that would be very difficult in check_ping (primarily  
timeouts for host unavailability, multiple ip addresses).

Ton

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