Global configuration state for per-use commands is crazy. Tom Smyth <tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu> wrote:
> Hello all,, > would it make sense > to have the value as a sysctl option or an environment variable ? > so that it can be tailored for users /admins needs, > > > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021, 12:22 Mark Kettenis, <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > From: Florian Obser <flor...@openbsd.org> > > > Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:46:21 +0200 > > > > > > Makes sense to me, OK florian > > > > Doesn't make sense to me. The RTT for an ICMP packet can be a > > significant part of a second (think Europe-Australia the wrong way > > around cause that is where all the bandwidth is, or when satellites > > are involved). I think this means that a single dropped packet could > > result in a failure to resolve one of the hops on such a path. > > > > I don't necessarily object to giving folks the ammunition to shoot > > themselves into the foot by dropping the minimum value to 1 second. > > But the default should be larger I think. > > > > > On 2021-08-19 23:47 -07, <jo...@armadilloaerospace.com> wrote: > > > > The default traceroute timeout of 5 seconds is excruciatingly long > > > > when there are elements of the route that don't respond, and it > > > > wasn't allowed to be set lower than 2 seconds. > > > > > > > > This changes the minimum to 1 second, matching FreeBSD, and also > > > > makes that the default, which should be reasonable for the vast > > > > majority of users today. > > > > > > > > The two awk files in this directory are two decades old, and > > > > not installed anywhere they can be executed as part of a traceroute > > > > pipeline; can they be removed? If the functionality is useful, > > > > implementing mean/median reporting as a new option in C would be > > > > straightforward. > > > > > > > > Index: usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.8 > > > > =================================================================== > > > > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.8,v > > > > retrieving revision 1.69 > > > > diff -u -p -u -r1.69 traceroute.8 > > > > --- usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.8 11 Feb 2020 18:41:39 > > -0000 1.69 > > > > +++ usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.8 20 Aug 2021 06:33:30 -0000 > > > > @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ and > > > > are listed. > > > > .It Fl w Ar waittime > > > > Set the time, in seconds, to wait for a response to a probe. > > > > -The default is 5. > > > > +The default is 1. > > > > .It Fl x > > > > Print the ICMP extended headers if available. > > > > This option is not available for IPv6. > > > > Index: usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.c > > > > =================================================================== > > > > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.c,v > > > > retrieving revision 1.164 > > > > diff -u -p -u -r1.164 traceroute.c > > > > --- usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.c 12 Jul 2021 15:09:21 > > -0000 1.164 > > > > +++ usr.sbin/traceroute/traceroute.c 20 Aug 2021 06:33:30 -0000 > > > > @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) > > > > rcvsock4 = rcvsock6 = sndsock4 = sndsock6 = -1; > > > > v4sock_errno = v6sock_errno = 0; > > > > > > > > - conf->waittime = 5 * 1000; > > > > + conf->waittime = 1000; > > > > > > > > if ((rcvsock6 = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_ICMPV6)) == -1) > > > > v6sock_errno = errno; > > > > @@ -554,9 +554,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) > > > > err(1, "setsockopt SO_RTABLE"); > > > > break; > > > > case 'w': > > > > - conf->waittime = strtonum(optarg, 2, INT_MAX, > > &errstr); > > > > + conf->waittime = strtonum(optarg, 1, INT_MAX, > > &errstr); > > > > if (errstr) > > > > - errx(1, "wait must be >1 sec."); > > > > + errx(1, "wait must be >=1 sec."); > > > > conf->waittime *= 1000; > > > > break; > > > > case 'x': > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > I'm not entirely sure you are real. > > > > > > > > > >
