[Nagiosplug-devel] check_ping and check_icmp confusion
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Wed Feb 22 09:53:05 CET 2006
gh wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 18:36 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
>>gh wrote:
>>>From what I can tell check_ping has been deprecated in favor of
>>
>>>check_icmp. Is this the case or are there certain systems or conditions
>>>that make check_ping favorable or even necessary?
>>>
>>
>>check_icmp had some problems on systems with 32-bit process id's in the
>>early days (causing it to mark the packets wrong and then not
>>recognizing them when they returned). It also used to calculate timings
>>slightly wrong. Both those problems are solved long since, however. Now
>>there are no real reasons to use check_ping instead of check_icmp.
>>
>
>
> What do people think about just dropping check_ping from the next
> version of the plugins package to avoid all this unnecessary confusion
> that is evident on the mailing lists and replace it with a symlink to
> check_icmp for backwards compatibility?
>
I'm all for it. Considering I wrote the thing originally I'm a bit
biased though.
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