check_fping still reporting 'OK'

[Myke Place]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:

> Looks like something has changed with the latest fping...
>
> What OS are you running? do you have IPv6 enabled?

uname -a;cat /etc/debian_version
Linux stats 2.4.19-pre8-jam3 #1 SMP Tue May 21 10:56:00 MDT 2002 i686
unknown
3.0

I don't believe IPv6 support is compiled in currently.

> Are you running fping from fping.org or the version patched by Tobias of
> MRTG and RRD fame ?

This is the fping which is included with Debian 3.0
(fping_2.4b2-to-ipv6-4_i386.deb) which appears to be packaged from the
source code on fping.com.

> -sg
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Myke Place wrote:
>
> >
> > > Can you run the fping from the CL and report the result and the result of
> > > "echo $?"
> >
> > fping deadhost
> > deadhost is unreachable
> >
> > Immediatly following that I issued 'echo $?':
> >
> > echo $?
> > 1
> >
> > > also run check_fping in verbose mode to see what the exact call is.
> >
> > This is as follows:
> >
> > ./check_fping deadhost -v
> > /usr/bin/fping -b 56 -c 1 deadhost
> >
> > deadhost : xmt/rcv/%loss = 1/0/100%
> > FPING OK - deadhost (loss=100.000000%, rta=0.000000 ms)
> >
> > As you can see it continues to report the state as being 'OK'.
> >
> >
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