[hobbit] turning up (way up) debugging for the conn tests

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:08:06PM -0400, Tom Georgoulias wrote:

1. How may pings are sent by fping to each host, by default? If I understand what the man page says, fping will send several before giving up. If fping gets a reply from the first, does it continue to send more?

fping sends 4 ping probes: One initial probe, and 3 retries.

2. How can I turn up the debugging output for the conn tests, beyond this line in my [bbnet] config in hobbitlaunch.cfg:

CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --debug --timing

There's no more debugging to add. The --debug option should leave the fping logs in the ~hobbit/server/tmp/ directory, so any error output from fping will be saved there.

Is there one I can add for bbretest, since it'll be handling the network tests after the first conn failure?

The bbretest-net.sh script runs bbtest-net, so you can use the same options there. If you define the FPING setting with debug options for fping, then those will also be used by the re-tests.

3. Would a hobbit network test ever initiate a connection using UDP on a high numbered port, like 37383?

No.

Regards, Henrik