Re: ping check bug?

 > >  > I recommend simply writing your own shell or perl script that does
 > >  > several pings and point $Conf{PingCmd} at your script.
 > > 
 > > sure, i guess that's reasonable, if mine is really a special case.
 > 
 > I'm not sure this is exactly the right place, but it
 > would be nice to generalize this into something
 > that could be used to bring up a VPN, ssh tunnel
 > with portforwarding to other boxes, or deal with
 > an inbound ssh tunnel established from the client

ooh, good point.  i don't have that issue yet, but will soon -- the
reason my problematic machines are behind a separate router is that
i'm building a new firewall, and one of them is wireless, and things
will be clamped down a lot more solidly soon.  i hadn't thought of
the impact that was going to have on backups...

paul
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 paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 65.5 degrees)


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