Check-ping Vs. Mac address table expiration

[Drew Weaver]

A very small number of hosts on my network serve important roles but aren't always in the MAC address table of the switch they're connected to. Their MAC address assignment gets timed out by the default (i think its 5 minutes) because no data has been sent to them in that amount of time.

For whatever reason, no matter what I do it seems like check-ping always thinks there is a problem.

The response from the rarely used host looks like:

Pinging 192.168.1.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.8: bytes=32 time=397ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.8: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.8: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=63
Reply from 192.168.1.8: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=63

397ms because the switch has to do ARP, etc...

Any suggestions how I can avoid this?

So far i've tried adding -p 5 to the check-ping in hopes that it would somehow use the average of the 5 pings.

thanks,
-Drew


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