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[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:36:07 +0000
"Paul L. Allen" <pla at softflare.com> wrote:

> Russell Miller writes: 
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> > On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:52, Paul L. Allen wrote:
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> > I maintain that if ping fails with the nagios default ping options,
> > either ping is broken or the default nagios install is broken. 
> 
> Ping options and behaviour varies quite a lot from platform to
> platform and the ping in RH8 is not broken, just different in
> behaviour from what the plugin assumes.  The plugin isn't broken
> either, as there is a mechanism for configuring it with the syntax
> required for whatever flavour of ping you have.  The autoconfiguration
> could be better though, by building in knowledge of the required ping
> syntax for various platforms. 

That's a moving target. I tend to think that we'd do better in the long
run by crafting a check_icmp based on code from a GPL
alternative. That is using POSIX networking rather than relying on
whatever version of ping might happen to be found be the configure step.

POSIX tends to change less than RedHat's ping.

--
Karl


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