probes::FPing.pm(3)

NAME

probes::FPing - FPing Probe for SmokePing

SYNOPSIS

 *** Probes ***
 + FPing
 binary = /usr/bin/fping
 packetsize = 1024

DESCRIPTION

Integrates FPing as a probe into smokeping. The variable binary must point to your copy of the FPing program. If it is not installed on your system yet, you can get it from http://www.fping.com/.

The (optional) packetsize option lets you configure the packetsize for the pings sent. The FPing manpage has the following to say on this topic:

Number of bytes of ping data to send. The minimum size (normally 12) allows room for the data that fping needs to do its work (sequence number, timestamp). The reported received data size includes the IP header (normally 20 bytes) and ICMP header (8 bytes), so the minimum total size is 40 bytes. Default is 56, as in ping. Maximum is the theoretical maximum IP datagram size (64K), though most systems limit this to a smaller, system-dependent number.

AUTHOR

Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>