[Trinux-talk] New config option: bestping

[Jesus C. <jcl...@cc...>]

Well...

I have been working in a new config option, named bestping.

It will work as using a "touch /tux/config/bestping" procedure, and
basically will check a set of servers for a best result in a=20
"ping -c 1 <server>" test.

The procedure requires the ping to take the server from the
/tux/config/server list and try it, creating a table of pairs
"time->server", sorting them and using them in a
first-come-first-served basis.

For the use of that script, it will have to be said in the config manual
that lost pings take a while, while timing out, so it might not be the
option for the long run (ping and reping again in every connection).

A new setting option should be created (as creating a server.bp) and use
a new "bestpingonce" option. Should it be set, and server.bp exists, no
further ping is done, and server.bp is used.

For those purposes, awk would be of my interest to be included, since is
60K long (not recompiled with any small library, such uC<something>) and
does the basic tricks needed for the job.

Any feedback is highly welcome.

Jesse

PS: the addition to the /linuxrc script is almost done, while depends on
awk and thus on the version of awk used.=20

I just came back home and I have no slackware installation around, but I
will try UserModeLinux to check the whole thing.

J.

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