[hobbit] dialup directive not implemented?

[Mike Serra]

(heh) Sorry, I thought I had searched the archives thoroughly before
asking about this, but I somehow missed the earlier extensive
discussion.  My apologies.  At any rate it seems like it would be
useful; we're interested in it for our modem pool, and I've seen people
in mailing lists (for BB?) who found other uses, like monitoring which
desktop machines in the office are up, etc.  But making it into a normal
network test associated with a host has one confusing aspect -- why
should it be associated with a host?  In fact the old BB syntax called
for a "hostname," but I can't think what it could want it for except as
a label to put on the display webpage.  But other than that confusion,
the old syntax makes sense.
- ms


Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:03:04AM -0500, Mike Serra wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a simple question about the "dialup" directive in bb-hosts, the
>> one that is supposed to come immediately after a page or subpage
>> directive, and is used to ping a range of hosts, like a modem pool.  Our
>> sysadmin tells me that he read (in a man page online?) that this
>> directive is not implemented.  And it's acting like it isn't: we can't
>> get it to do anything, despite trying every possible syntax that could
>> make sense.  But on the other hand people online talk about this as if
>> they're using it just fine.  So -- is it implemented?  We are using
>> hobbit version 4.2-beta-20060605.
>>     
>
> It was implemented some time ago, but I've had reports coming in over
> the past couple of months that it doesn't work in the 4.2 test releases
> that are out. I then asked if anyone was using it, because if not I'd 
> prefer to just rip it out instead of trying to fix it - and so far
> noone has stepped forward to say they really need it.
>
> So ... do you need it ? If people want it, I'd really rather implement
> it quite differently than the old BB implementation - as a normal
> network test associated with a host, e.g.
>
>     0.0.0.0   vpnpool.foo.com  # iprange=172.16.1.1-172.16.1.100
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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