Re: [Freeipmi-devel] ipmi-discovery

[Al Chu]

Hi Vijay,

You're working off quite an old version of ipmi-ping.  What version is
this so I can do a test build?

Also, you might also want to send a Makefile patch, since pthreads are
not compiled in by default.

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 14:34 -0700, vijay v wrote:
> Confusion :
> do we need a single tool that does ping as well as discovery ?

My opinion is no.  They should be different tools.

> 1) timeout should be implemented for discovery and the select wait
> time should be split accordingly ?
> 2) interval should be between the time between each ping of
> destination
> 3) count as in ipmi-ping.

I would try and model the options, output, behavior, etc. off of fping:

http://www.fping.com/

Of course a number of options, features, etc. won't carry over.  You may
be able to borrow code from fping too??

Al
 
> Thanks,
> Vijay
>  
>  
> 
> Al Chu <address@hidden> wrote: 
>         Hi Vijay,
>         
>         I'll have to defer to A.B. for the final choice of what we do.
>         Once
>         it's cleaned up and final, perhaps it could just be a separate
>         tool in
>         FreeIPMI?
>         
>         For now, how about posting the beginning src somewhere or just
>         send it
>         out on the mailing list. That way we can get idea of where the
>         tool
>         is at.
>         
>         Al
>         
>         On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 13:27 -0700, vijay v wrote:
>         > Hi Al & others,
>         > I just finished developing a tool : "ipmidiscover startIP
>         endIP"
>         > utilizing the existing ipmi-ping.c code in the freeipmi code
>         base.
>         > 
>         > algo:
>         > 1. construct ip range .
>         > 2. start 2 threads 
>         > i) sendthread will do : rv = ipmi_lan_sendto(_sockfd,
>         > buffer, len, 0, (struct sockaddr *)& _destaddr, sizeof
>         (_destaddr));
>         > ii) receivethread will : en = ipmi_lan_recvfrom(_sockfd,
>         buffer,
>         > IPMI_PING_MAX_PKT_LEN, 0,
>         > (struct sockaddr *)&from,
>         > &fromlen);
>         > both in loop of step-1 ip range.
>         > 
>         > 3) display the result thats it!!
>         > 
>         > I needed it quickly so i just wrote it in a day but it works
>         fine ....
>         > It is not yet integrated into the package since its got some
>         > TBD.... should i put the .c file alone somewhere in
>         sourceforge or in
>         > gnu website please advice ? it can go in parallel with
>         existing ipmi-
>         > ping.c dir but i dont want to publish it in the main package
>         yet since
>         > it only does the basic function ... some one can take it and
>         code to
>         > it so it will qualify for republishing ..... I could do it
>         later
>         > following how this thread....
>         > 
>         > Thanks,
>         > Vijay
>         > 
>         > 
>         > 
>         > Al Chu wrote:
>         > Hi Vijay,
>         > 
>         > I'd be glad to help. I don't quite understand the question
>         > though.
>         > Could you rephrase?
>         > 
>         > Al
>         > 
>         > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:41 -0700, vijay v wrote:
>         > > There was a broken thread about discovey option ...
>         couldnt
>         > figure out
>         > > much from discovery.scm too...
>         > > 
>         > > I want a simple C/C++ application "ipmi-discover startIP
>         > endIP" .....
>         > > currently iam half way through utilizing ipmi-ping code.
>         > > 
>         > > 
>         > > Please advice.
>         > > 
>         > > Thanks,
>         > > Vijay
>         > > 
>         > > 
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