Monitoring UDP Packets using ping

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Sekhar wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
>  I want to monitor for one ip address UDP Packets using ping how do i do 
> this normal ping is working for icmp packets.One of my client stop 
> access to icmp packets and he is only allowing udp.
>

First, tell your client to allow at least some ICMP.  Dropping all ICMP 
will likely cause issues, see:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122#section-3.2.2.

Failing the adoption of that sage bit of advice, you could use the 
check_udp plugin to hit an arbitrary UDP port for connectivity.

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