[Nagiosplug-help] check_icmp problems

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Aug 27 17:42:53 CEST 2008


Once upon a time, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> said:
> Glad to hear things are working better for you. If you send me the
> outside IP-address of the device you're having problems with, I'd
> be happy to check if I can find some way to make check_icmp play a
> little nicer with it. It could be that flipping how the SEQ_BITS
> are used makes all the difference, if the device for some reason
> does some masking of the icmp_seq field.

One thing to note about my patch: it does NOT put the icmp_seq field in
network order, so the bits that are changing are going to be the high
bits on any little-endian computer (e.g. x86).  Adding an htons() call
might help here.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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