> What's wrong with your example is that it doesn't do anything even > resembling what he wants. Sending a single echo request is not the > same as sending echo requests for as long as it takes to get a response, > and then exiting successfully. He even gave you an example of how one > would use this option, so you shouldn't be confused.
Then put the ping into a loop. BTW: the sample in ifstated.conf(5) uses ping(8) in exactly tha same way. Ciao, Kili