[hobbit] Pinging Question

[Larry Barber]

I had a similar problem with web pages. Reducing the concurrency on the
bbtest-net fixed the problem.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 3/8/07, Gary Ciampa <Gary.Ciampa at sas.com> wrote:
>
>  Kev,
>
> you might want to download Ethereal, http://www.ethereal.com/, and monitor
> the ICMP traffic between the hobbit server and the remote host. You can
> filter on local and remote IP addresses to detect the differences between
> the server automated ping, versus, a manual ping from the server.
>
> Gary
>
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> *From:* kev14380 at aol.com [mailto:kev14380 at aol.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:55 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* [hobbit] Pinging Question
>
>  Hello,
>          I work for an organization that has about 100 firewalls
> deployed.  We currently use hobbit to ping all the interfaces to see if they
> are up.  Out of about 500 interfaces we are pinging there are about 10 that
> will show up as being down on the hobbit web pages but when you ping from
> the hobbit server manually you get a response that they are up.  Any ideas
> as to why they would show up as down on the web pages but you get responses
> from manual pings.  Is there somethign different about the pings used for
> the webpages?
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