Dpinger 3.0 hot off the presses!

luckman212

I compiled this from source & installed this on my 2.4.1 test system (2.4.1.a.20171003.1658). Will kick the tires. So far so good.

Anyone else who wants to try it, you can use this version I compiled (built on FreeBSD 11.1).
Just ssh in and run the following cmds:


fetch https://s3.amazonaws.com/pub-ro/dpinger3.tgz
tar xvfz dpinger3.tgz
pkill -lf /usr/local/bin/dpinger
mv /usr/local/bin/dpinger /usr/local/bin/dpinger.old
cp /root/dpinger /usr/local/bin/dpinger

Now go to Status > Services and start dpinger again

edit: why the pkill you ask? Dunno, I tried to stop dpinger gracefully from the GUI and it doesn't stop, at least on my system… not sure if that's a bug or just my system being wonky...

edit2: so far this has survived a few in-place upgrades on my test box, but YMMV and it's possible that it gets overwritten. If you want to verify that you have the 3.0 version, here's the MD5:

# md5 /usr/local/bin/dpinger
MD5 (/usr/local/bin/dpinger) = e3b1bb249dfed87c2e2e036bd70a03ac

dennypage: how about adding a –version switch that prints out the version to make it easier to see what you've got?

dennypage

@luckman212:

Thank you Denny (and NOYB) :D

You're welcome. Please let me know if you run into any issues.

chpalmer

@luckman212:

I compiled this from source & installed this on my 2.4.1 test system (2.4.1.a.20171003.1658). Will kick the tires. So far so good.

Thanks Luckman! Ive got this working on several 2.4RC systems now. :)

edit- edited to show several testing.

Guest

@luckman212:

Hopefully this gets enough testing to be baked into 2.4.1…
https://github.com/dennypage/dpinger/releases/tag/v3.0

Thank you Denny (and NOYB) :D

Thanks chaps. Installed here.

bimmerdriver

If someone does a PR, I'll test it.

luckman212

@bimmerdriver:

If someone does a PR, I'll test it.

Don't think it's currently possible to submit PR's with binaries? am I wrong? If you want to test you can scroll up 5 posts for a download link to a version I compiled.

Guest

@bimmerdriver:

If someone does a PR, I'll test it.

Just follow Luke's shell in msg #4.

Works fine.

grandrivers

if i upgrade will dpinger get overwritten and need to reapply this??

version 3.0 seem to be problem free for me

dennypage

Yes, you should expect that it will be overwritten. Dpinger is part of the base pfSense install.

Dazog

Will this make it in for 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 ?

dennypage

It's not currently in the 2.4.2 snapshots, but I expect that it will show up as soon as Renato has some time. He's already updated it in the FreeBSD ports collection. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=451226

dennypage

Dpinger 3.0 will appear in 2.4.2. Renato says it should appear in snapshots today.

luckman212

Nice, thank you

Dazog

Nice! don't need to manually load it anymore after testing 2.4.2 builds.

dennypage

Special thanks to NOYB for raising the issue, and for the patience displayed while doing so.

Wordo

Hi,

will this replace apinger in the mid-/long-term?

luckman212

Yes, in about 2 years ago. /s
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/5624

Wordo

Wow .. I really need an update on the insides :o ::)

Camis

On 2.4.2.a.20171107.0939 i can't see dpinger packages.

luckman212

It's not a package. Just a binary that's shipped as part of pfSense.