[hobbit] fping tuning

Frédéric Mangeant frederic.mangeant at steria.com
Tue May 2 10:00:25 CEST 2006


Henrik Stoerner a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:03:30AM -0400, Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:
>   
>
> Just an update on this:
>
> As some have noticed - because it didn't compile - I have cooked up a
> "hobbitping" utility to replace fping. On my system, fping took about
> 90 seconds to do a full sweep of the hosts. hobbitping takes 17 seconds,
> of which 15 are a static 3x5 seconds delay while the non-responding hosts
> timeout.
>
> Eric was so kind as to confirm that it works on his system as well.
>
> So it's goodbye fping - hello hobbitping.
>   


Hi Henrik

many thanks for writing hobbitping ! It works fine on my test system 
(Gentoo Linux x86, glibc 2.3.6, GCC 3.4.6).

Is it / will it be possible to run it on top of a 4.1.2p1 installation ?


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Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis






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