I have a laptop computer that connects through wireless and wired at different times. The ping works if I am connected to one of the ports, but if I connect to the other port instead I get an error. If I do nmblookup <hostname> it always gives me the up-to-date ip address but I keep getting "no ping" errors when I try to backup when connected to the port it doesn't like. Do I have to change something in /etc/hosts for dhcpd to fix this? It needs to work if it is connected to both wireless and wired at the same time or either separately.
Thanks. Krsnendu dasa On 05/06/07, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/01 05:03 , Klaas Vantournhout wrote: > > I think it would be better to change the ping command to the arpping > > command. This way you can block ping requests on the clients (which is > > safer), and backuppc is still able to check if the pc is alive or not. > > I would suggest that a better mechanism would be a TCP-based ping that > attempts to connect to the rsyncd or ssh port. Several such tools exist. > This is a more meaningful test, since it checks the mechanism which > BackupPC actually uses to do the backup. > > Such tools are not universally available, unfortunately. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
