- 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.
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).