Re: [hobbit] turning up (way up) debugging for the conn tests

[henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)]

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