Re: {bb} bbgen ping question

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

Wes Neal <wes.neal@mci.com> writes:

>I don't see any settings like the three listed below in those 2 man pages or
>in the fping man page.  My bbsys.local file doesn't have any information in
>it mentioning fping.  Just these two that concern ping:

>PING="/bin/ping"
>PINGPAR1="-w3 -n -c1" 

>I want it to make multiple ping checks like regular BB does before going
>red, but I don't think it is doing so nor do I see how to check it.  fping
>says its default retry is 3 and the multiplex for the retry is 1.5 by
>default.  I see the options for fping in the man page, but not sure how to
>change them in bbsys.local.  The man page for bb-environ says:

> FPING  Defines the command used to perform ping-tests with the  fping(1)
>tool.  You
>              can add fping options here if you like,

>Do I need to give it the full command name and options I want to change or
>can I just put the options in somehow? 

The safe bet is to put the full command and options in the FPING setting.

FPING="/usr/local/sbin/fping -r3"

fping does send multiple ping's. You really don't need to mess with these
options unless you have a very specific need to do so (like testing 
connectivity over a satellite link with very high latency).

Henrik

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