how to ping instead of check_ping.

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:28:34 +0530
prabhu.anandh at wipro.com wrote:

> Hi fredrik,
> The option -w 2 I gave has got a reason.if I give a wrong address or
> if the host is down,it wont exit the shell script.and that must not be
> the case.so I gave that option to exit from the ping mode .i think you
> understand my answer.you try pinging some invalid address with and
> without -w option.it will give you the reason ,why I am giving -w
> option. And moreover,I am not doing this for learning.I have some ipv6
> only machines and I am not able to ping using the ping command,so I
> have to use ping6 for that.i am testing whether it works for ping or
> not and I need your help in solving this problem. I am putting this
> problem in mailing list ,since I feel this will be a important
> subject. Thanks in advance.

1.4.0alpha1 supports ping6 - and you would help development by testing
the code.

--
Karl


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