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list Henrik Størner
Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:11:55 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:31:36AM +0100, Peter wrote:
I see in the man pages that it is possible to do a traceroute if the conn test fails. Is it also possible to always do a traceroute? And maybe even get yellow if it exeeds a certain number of hops?
No.

Running traceroute is rather ressource-heavy, and I would
strongly advise against doing that on all hosts - if you have
more than a handful of systems you test, it can easily cause
your network tests to take longer than 5 minutes to complete,
and you won't be able to have your status updated as often as
one would like.


Regards,
Henrik