[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-1494629 ] 1.4.3 & 1.4.5 - check_icmp fails after a time on FreeBSD

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Bugs item #1494629, was opened at 2006-05-25 06:41
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Category: General plugin execution
Group: Release (specify)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Mark Favas (mfavas)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: 1.4.3 & 1.4.5 - check_icmp fails after a time on FreeBSD

Initial Comment:
Current release (1.4.3) check_icmp on FreeBSD 6.1 works
fine for some hours, then reports 100% packet loss.
This is due to the plugin not allowing for the fact
that PIDs can be greater than 65535 (i.e. more than 16
bits) on  systems such as FreeBSD. Further details are
given in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.plugins/1945 
. A version of check_icmp available from Andreas fixes
this issue. This version has an earlier date associated
with it than the version distributed in nagios-plugins,
but a higher revsion number. Quote:

"""
If the fix isn't available in a recent package from the
official 
nagiosplug package you should be able to use the one
found at 
http://oss.op5.se/nagios/check_icmp-2005-06-01.tar.gz

You can notice if the fix is available from the
nagiosplug project by doing

$ grep -q 'pid & 0xffff' check_icmp.c && echo "Fix
available"

"""

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Comment By: Mark Favas (mfavas)
Date: 2006-12-02 18:29

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This bug still exists in version 1.4.5

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