On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:34:51PM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
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
Yes.
also correct to conclude that it takes 4 unanswered pings before Hobbit will consider a system unreachable?
Hobbit just uses whatever fping reports, so since fping takes 4 pings to
deem a host unreachable - yes, that is correct.
Regards,
Henrik