fping failure

[Jeff Newman]

All,

Every now and then, all of my hosts go red on conn and fail, then come
right back up. Below is and excerpt from bb-network.log. As you can
see, it's at no
set time, no set date, it just plain fails. Any thoughts?

2006-03-06 23:20:29 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98
2006-03-06 23:20:29 Cannot open fping output file
/usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.17520
2006-03-24 02:51:27 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98
2006-03-24 02:51:27 Cannot open fping output file
/usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.17576
2006-04-15 18:24:31 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98
2006-04-15 18:24:31 Cannot open fping output file
/usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.18026
2006-04-27 18:48:05 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98
2006-04-27 18:48:05 Cannot open fping output file
/usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.17520
2006-05-04 17:14:08 Execution of '/usr/sbin/fping -Ae' failed with error-code 98
2006-05-04 17:14:08 Cannot open fping output file
/usr/local/hobbit/server/tmp/fping-stdout.18026


-Jeff