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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9013.0. "Ping wait for offline host reducible by < 10 secs?" by MANM01::JOELJOSOL () Mon Mar 03 1997 07:25

    I need to reduce time for ping to wait for an offline host by 
    less than 10 seconds. Is there a setting or parameter which is
    undocumented that I can resort to?
    
    I need this to make my script work with ASE. ASE takes about
    10 seconds to failover and mount a service on a
    mount point which the customer uses to mount a backup storage
    on the failover system. 
    
    I've written a script which monitors the network and dismounts
    the backup storage within 12 seconds which works if ASE took
    more than 12 seconds to failover and which fails when it does
    failover in 10. Script is dependent on ping wait for an offline
    host.
    
    So, is there a a way to reduce the wait for an offline host by
    less than 10 seconds? 
    
    /joeljosol

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
9013.1	Write your own program that pings...	VAXCPU::michaud	Jeff Michaud - ObjectBroker	`Mon Mar 03 1997 10:26`	0
9013.2	Source exists	KAMPUS::NEIDECKER	EUROMEDIA: Distributed Multimedia Archives	`Thu Mar 06 1997 10:50`	5
	You can use ftp.kar.dec.com/tools/fping-1.17.tar.gz which allows to do what you want with approriate flags.