On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:05:26PM +0200,
 Baco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 132 lines which said:

> When we are monitoring a leased line and the traffic is running very high the router 
>or the modem
> drop the ICMP requests so the leased line apears to be down but it is still running. 
>One solution is
> maybe to use TCP Ping as an alternative to ICMP echo.

I agree :-) http://echoping.sourceforge.net/
 
> Is it possible to include the following patch or a derivate in the next release of 
>Mon ?

No! Adding a new monitor is fine, changing an existing monitor to
something else, with a different semantic is not.
 
No probe is perfect. fping has its problems, echoping too and tping
too. We need to have the choice.

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