R: [hobbit] dialup directive not implemented?

[Francesco Duranti]

Hi all, I'm also in need to a "iprange" test mostly for modem banks and vpn connected users...
This kind of syntax will be much better then the old dialup style. 
If it will become a normal test with a normal output it could be nice to also have something like number of reachable/unreachable host in rrd format so that we can see how many users are connecting during the day...

Another think interesting (don't know how many people will use it or need it) can be something like
0.0.0.0 vpnpool.foo.com # [!]iprange=172.16.1.1-172.16.1.100,[yellow number],[red number]
So it can also be used to alert when for example you've only 5 connection available out of 100 or the reverse of this for example if of your 10 domain controller/webserver/dns server only 2 are up and running



-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Inviato: martedì 8 agosto 2006 17.35
A: hobbit at hswn.dk
Oggetto: Re: [hobbit] dialup directive not implemented?

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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