| llslim | hello | 17:35 |
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| holstein | llslim: hey there | 17:36 |
| llslim | holstein: how are you today? have you dealt with ping not timing out with the deadline (-w) option? | 17:38 |
| holstein | im well | 17:39 |
| holstein | llslim: whats the issue? | 17:39 |
| holstein | im not sure ive every used the -w flag | 17:39 |
| llslim | i'm on a ubuntu 11.04 desktop install in virualbox. i'm trying to write a network sanity check script | 17:40 |
| llslim | the ping just hangs | 17:40 |
| holstein | what are you pinging? | 17:40 |
| llslim | local network address 192.168.56.1 apart of a ifupdown mapping script. if the networkis unreachable then i'm setting up another static connection on 192.168.1x network | 17:43 |
| holstein | llslim: did you set Vbox up that way? | 17:44 |
| holstein | to communicate with your network, and get its own IP? | 17:44 |
| holstein | run ifconfig, and see what IP the virtual machine has | 17:45 |
| holstein | if its a 192.168.1.x, then you *should* be able to get through, and ping | 17:45 |
| llslim | yup it works if i manual set it, but the ping hangs on check script. and on the commandline when i try to ping an non-existent address i have to ctrl-c everytime | 17:47 |
| llslim | ping doesn't give any feedback on ubuntu | 17:48 |
| llslim | neither -w or -W have any effect | 17:50 |
| llslim | -w and -W are timeout options of ping. sorry | 17:52 |
| holstein | yeah, i looked at ping -help | 17:52 |
| holstein | but, its just always worked for me, or its been hardware related | 17:53 |
| llslim | i can ping existing host just fine. i just need a timeout response from ping to let the script move on and not idle | 17:55 |
| holstein | i would probably try #ubuntu-server and/or #ubuntu-beginners | 17:57 |
| holstein | * not that its a beginner question | 17:57 |
| llslim | and i logged onto my shell account on my web hosting company. the options worked fine there. so it's either a ubuntu issue or vbox issue. if -w issues works for you it must me a box issue i'll try those channels as well. | 17:58 |
| holstein | well, im not sure how to use -w | 17:58 |
| holstein | but i just tried something with it, and it seemed to work | 17:58 |
| holstein | i would say, Vbox is the constant, but more than that, the Vbox networking scenario | 17:59 |
| llslim | -w 2 ping a host if it doesn't return a response in 2 seconds it should timeout. | 18:00 |
| llslim | i say vbox too but i needed to confirm it wasn't a ubunu issue first | 18:01 |
| llslim | thanks for all your help. i found this channel by a youtube result of a google search. glad to see there's a linux specific irc channel in NC. | 18:03 |
| holstein | llslim: glad to see you :) | 18:05 |
| llslim | i will visit more often. :) | 18:05 |
| _marx_ | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y00yMrMIMtc | 22:05 |
| holstein | _marx_: cool | 22:13 |
| holstein | these are handy too | 22:13 |
| holstein | http://wnclug.blogspot.com/p/chat.html | 22:13 |
| holstein | _marx_: you should share that at the facebook page if you havent already* | 22:18 |
| _marx_ | ubuntu nc fb page | 22:32 |
| _marx_ | don't know if that's what he found on youtube | 22:32 |
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