ping flood? turn off auto-lock?

[dotd]

Hello,

I am trying to do some pings on several servers of mine and want them to be done as fast as possible, since my script should later run as kinda daemon. Now I am facing that problem, when I use ping -f [ips] then I get that result:

ping: cannot flood; minimal interval, allowed for user, is 200ms

Now I wonder where I can turn of that lock that would not allow me to send more than one ping in 200ms (I got root access)?

[anomie]

Why do you need to run icmp echo attack on your own servers?

[dotd]

In fact it´s not meant as an attack... I do own quite a lot hosting packages and probably a dozen servers and I am currently in the process of setting up my own monitoring system at one of my dedicated servers.. that´s about why I need it (while it´s only one thing out of several queries I do)... so basically none of the hosting packages would be pinged attack-alike... so is there a way to turn of that limitation on my server that does the monitoring?

[anomie]

For server monitoring there is a robust tool (which can be configured to only ping if that's all you need) you should check out: Nagios: Home

Before you try to compile it from source, see if your distro has a package available for you to install.

[Smither]

If you have sudo installed add this to your sudoer's file:

%users          ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD:/bin/ping

and in /etc/bash/bashrc:

alias pf='sudo ping -f'

Then source /etc/bash/bashrc. Now pf <host> should flood it.

That's just how I'd do it.

[dotd]

that sudo stuff doesn&#180;t work for me it seems (no bash folder and stuff)... as for good monitoring software: I know there are some good solutions on the market, but call it a spleen, but I really like running my own - so to say - personalised software

So there is no file where I simply could turn that off like something like that

min_time_per_ping = 200

making to

min_tim_per_ping = 10

?