[Nagiosplug-devel] check_udp
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Thu Mar 23 04:11:04 CET 2006
Ton Voon wrote:
> Since udp is connectionless, a check_udp -H hostname -p port is useless
> - it will always return OK. Will need the send and receive to work in
> order to prove that data is being sent and responded to. However, it
> looks like the send and receive functions do not currently work. It
> seems that you cannot use the send function, so you have to use the
> sendto function. However, I'm having trouble setting up the hostname
> and socket and how it should interact with np_net_connect.
>
send(2) should work if the socket has been associated with a remote
address using connect(2). If it doesn't it's a kernel bug and should be
reported. Please verify that indeed it *doesn't* work before you report
it though.
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