Check_ping problems ?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Drew Kollasch wrote:
> The devices in question are printers and access points that have single
> interfaces/IP's. Regular pings from the box to the devices in question
> have no problems at all. (as well as from other machines to/from the
> devices in question)
> 
> Would there happen to be an archive of the plugins someplace that I
> could maybe try different versions of the check_ping command?

http://oss.op5.se/nagios/check_icmp-2005-03-30.tar.gz

> The reason
> I ask this is because the 'weirdness' seemed to have started sometime
> after an upgrade on the plugins for my nagios install. (base OS is
> gentoo[x86])
> 
> 
>  -------------------------------------------------------
> Drew Kollasch
> Network/Desktop Technician
> kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org
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> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erek Dyskant [mailto:erek at nbtsc.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:38 AM
> To: Drew Kollasch
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_ping problems ?
> 
> It means that you've possibly got several boxes registered to the same
> IP address, or other similiar network weirdness.  Ping does that when it
> sends out one ping request but gets back two replies.
> 
> I'd try some manual ping commands to try and isolate the problem.
> 
> Erek
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:24:00AM -0600, Drew Kollasch wrote:
> 
>> I am currently running a nagios 1.2 box monitoring approx 120 hosts 
>>and 200 services. On about 20 of the services (almost always as of 
>>recently) I get a WARNING status that says "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES
> 
> FOUND!
> 
>>Packet loss = 1%, RTA = 0.27 ms". (or something very similar) have 
>>anyone else seen this odd behavior?
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>Drew Kollasch
>>Network/Desktop Technician
>>kollasch.drew at bvrmc.org
>>712-213-8668
>>
>>Buena Vista Regional Medical Center
>>1525 W 5th St
>>Storm Lake, IA 50588
>>
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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