[hobbit] Problems with hobbitping when the Network is unreachable (BUG)

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:07:42PM +0100, Sebastian wrote:
> I rebooted my hobbit server and it lost its default gateway, unbeknown to
> me.  The only symptoms of something wrong was a purple in a network test is
> was supposed to be doing and a purple in the server's bbtest column.  Now, I
> reckon one or other or both of these should have both gone red and not
> purple, and the reason that they did not is due to hobbitping going into a
> spin:  what looks like a fairly tight loop.  Hobbitping was using quite a
> lot of CPU (I saw it at well over 30%) and server/tmp/ping-stdout.1407 was
> empty but server/tmp/ping-stderr.5499 was getting many (about 60) "Failed to
> send ICMP packet: Network is unreachable" written to it every second.

Thanks, the attached patch should solve this problem.


Regards,
Henrik

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