[hobbit] Pinging Question

[Craig Cook]

I had problems with ping tests using BB so I wrote fping.pl, it is on deadcat.net.

It pings your hosts, takes note of any that failed, and pings them at the end again.  So if it reports a host down it has actually failed 2 pings during one test cycle.  If a host fails the first ping but works on the second it is marked yellow.

I had some devices randomly not respond to pings.  (I was pinging 1000+ devices in <5 mins though.  I had issues overloading the TCP stack but that is another story).

It shouldn't be too hard to convert to use with hobbit.

(Maybe this idea could be included in the hobbit ping util)

Craig Cook
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