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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=187504915-03122007>Based mostly on my BB experience, but it looks equally
applicable to Hobbit:</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Shawn<SPAN
class=187504915-03122007>'s problem looks it might be caused by two BBNETs, one
of which can see the other system and one of which cannot, both reporting to the
same BBDISPLAY - hence the flapping.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=187504915-03122007>Josh's issue just looks like glitches (occasional
packet loss, probably) in the network path from time to
time.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=187504915-03122007>Sebastian</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 30 November 2007
21:48<BR><B>To:</B> hobbit@hswn.dk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [hobbit] Strange
pinging issue<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I get a very similar situation, of which I was just about to
report! Mine will be green for hours or days, then show up red for much
less time (5-45 seconds). I've mine set as
default..<BR><BR>FPING="/usr/sbin/fping" <BR><BR>I have testip on almost every
single host.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 11/30/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Maschino,
Shawn (SABIC Innovative Plastics)</B> <<A
href="mailto:shawn.maschino@sabic-ip.com"> shawn.maschino@sabic-ip.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2> Hi all, we are seeing
a strange fping issue with Hobbit and I was wondering if anyone may
have seen the same.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN> <FONT face=Arial size=2>We have changed the IP
addresses on a large number of systems we are monitoring due to moving them
to a new location. We updated the bb-hosts file to have the new IPs,
and DNS was also updated. However Hobbit occasionally falls back to
testing the old IP for no apparent reason. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2> This happens quite
regularly as well, as seen here:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2> The conn status page
when green shows the correct IP address, and when red shows the wrong (old)
IP address. Nothing in the bb-hosts or DNS change during this
time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN> <FONT face=Arial size=2>I ran a "fping -AeC
1000 -i 5000 <host>" from the command line to see if fping was
switching IPs, and it does not seem to be, even when Hobbit shows red, the
fping from the command line still his the new/current
IP.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN> <FONT face=Arial size=2>I've tried forcing a
"testip" in bb-hosts to see if DNS was involved, and with that forced
it still changes in Hobbit.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN> <FONT face=Arial size=2>Any suggestions would
be much appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Shawn</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR
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