From d3c172383ff9ccaff5dc510fea439284f9f28650 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guilherme Maciel Ferreira Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:28:13 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: updating Readme and TODO files. --- Readme | 6 ++++++ TODO | 3 --- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Readme b/Readme index b3275bf..5e13b9e 100644 --- a/Readme +++ b/Readme @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ This configurations are shared among and affect all the hosts. - interval: the host will be pinged every "interval" seconds. - ping-protocol: indicates which protocol to use to ping the destination host, the currently supported protocols are TCP (tcp, tcp_ipv6) and ICMP (icmp, icmpv6). + This configuration can be used to perform a protocol fallback, in which N pings + are performed with one protocol, and then after those N attempts, a second protocol + is used. For example, with the given configuration: + ping-protocol=ICMPv6,42,ICMP + the program will ping a host 42 times using the ICMP over IPv6, and then it will + use the ICMP over IPv4 after those 42 attempts. diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index dce3202..bb8d539 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ goal is avoid the annoying requirement to put "port" and "interval" at every single host. -- Make it configurable if an IP should be reached by IPv4only or IPv6only or - IPv6first, IPv4first. - - QoS-Flags of the ping packets should be configurable. - Make the configuration file reloadable (see bpdyndns). -- 1.7.1