[hobbit] turning up (way up) debugging for the conn tests
Tom Georgoulias
tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com
Tue Jun 20 18:34:51 CEST 2006
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
also correct to conclude that it takes 4 unanswered pings before Hobbit
will consider a system unreachable?
Tom
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