On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 9:45 AM, info@linuxfabrik.ch <info@linuxfabrik.ch> wrote:

Hi all,

we randomly and constantly have this message in our /var/log/ovirt- hosted-engine-ha/broker.log:

/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.log:Thread-1::WARNING::2018-03- 27 08:17:25,891::ping::63::ping.Ping::(action) Failed to ping x.x.x.x, (4 out of 5)

The pinged device is a switch (not a gateway). We know that a switch might drop icmp packets if it needs to. The interesting thing about that is if it fails it fails always at "4 out of 5", but in the end (5 of 5) it always succeeds.

Is there a way to increase the amount of pings or to have another way instead of ping?

Now looked at the source, and I do not think there is a way. It might be useful to add one, though - and might be not too hard - perhaps something like this (didn't test): https://gerrit.ovirt.org/89528 That said, I think it's about time we change the text(s) to imply that we use this gateway to test network connectivity with ping, so do not really need to be a gateway, but do need to reliably reply to pings, and if we do have places where we use it as a gateway, we should simply ask two questions, or at least allow overriding in the config file. Best regards, -- Didi