turning up (way up) debugging for the conn tests

list Tom Georgoulias
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:34:51 -0400
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Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:08:06PM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

1.  How may pings are sent by fping to each host, by default?  If I understand what the man page says, fping will send several before giving up.  If fping gets a reply from the first, does it continue to send more?

fping sends 4 ping probes: One initial probe, and 3 retries.

Is it correct to say that as soon as fping gets a reply back from the server, it considers that server available and marks it as such?  Is it also correct to conclude that it takes 4 unanswered pings before Hobbit will consider a system unreachable?

Tom