check_ping modification?

[Joe Rhett]

Find fping and install that.  Then re-run configure on the plugins and it
will see fping.  fping allows you to set the interval from the command line.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:43:07PM +0000, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a situation where I need to modify check_ping to allow me to
> specify the interval between ping (-I for /bin/ping).  We apparently
> have some ICMP rate limiting going on at our ISP which is caused all our
> client's connections to appear to have 40% packet loss ;-)
> 
> I know nothing of C and despite reading through the code for check_ping
> several times I can't spot the place where the command is specified.  I
> would very much it appreciate if someone could point me to the
> appropriate line to modify.  I wouldn't mind hard-coding the -I value at
> all.  Or if anyone has a perl version of check_ping then I could easily
> adapt that.
> 
> thanks
> Matthew Wilson
> DC-Sat.net
> 
> 
> 
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