How is the ping count supposed to be formatted? about tmo-monitor HOT 8 CLOSED

@famewolf it designed to short circuit on the first successful ping - it will only perform up to the --ping-count number of pings if they all fail. In other words, it will only reboot if it makes --ping-count attempts and they all fail.

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This worked for me. Note I'm using my fork to test, but it did the right thing (pinged Microsoft 3 times.)

PS C:\src\tmo-monitor> python.exe .\tmo-monitor.py -H "microsoft.com" --ping-count 3 --ping-interval 1
Camping on n41.

Pinging microsoft.com [104.215.148.63] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 104.215.148.63:
    Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),


Pinging microsoft.com [104.215.148.63] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 104.215.148.63:
    Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),


Pinging microsoft.com [104.215.148.63] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 104.215.148.63:
    Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),

Could not ping microsoft.com.
Reboot requested.
Rebooting.

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The output of the ping command itself is slightly confusing because it is not passing an argument to the ping command to specify the number of pings but rather performing separate calls to perform a single ping at a time.

I am considering making a feature to require a certain number or percent of failures or consecutive failures, which would be harder to deal with in a cross-platform way without doing single pings.

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using microsoft DID get me 3 but all 3 failed and I have no idea why as I'm not blocking it...this made the gateway reboot.

I think microsoft.com blocks ICMP requests to avoid DDOS. Google still allows pings to get through because so many people use it as a ping target. If you just trying pinging microsoft.com from a terminal it'll probably time out as well.

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@famewolf, is this issue resolved?

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@famewolf you don't actually need to specify all those flags to increase ping count - you can get by with just using --ping-count 3 or whatever you'd like - the other ping-related settings will inherit defaults. As mentioned above, the feature will only perform repeated pings if the first ping(s) fail(s)

Thanks for the great feature idea and I hope this helps - going to close this issue!

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