[Nagiosplug-devel] Feature request: extend check_ping to specify source address

[Christian Schneemann]

On Thursday July 17 2008 09:25:09 am Matthias Eble wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:48 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > to specify the source address on the executed "ping"
> > command (*BSD: -S, Linux: -I) to be able to monitor a host on the
> > other
> > end of a VPN.  I sent the outline of a patch to the FreeBSD ports
> > people,
> > and they referred me here instead (whilst commenting it was a good
> > idea).
> >
> > Is this planned to be introduced at all?
>
> Hi Dave,
> this feature is already provided by check_icmp.
> The only drawback of check_icmp is that it needs super user privileges
> (set uid root or sudo).
But why not enhancing the check_ping with this option?
In my opinion it is a better way than giving some binaries a suid bit.



>
> As you already mentioned, there are differences between the ping
> syntaxes that need to be discovered (rather assumed). I'd thus suggest
> not to add more ping_command detection steps to configure.in since we
> already have many of them.
>
> Matthias



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