* CHANGES updated

* FPing : added 'hostinterval' (-p), renamed 'mindelay' -> 'mininterval' (-i)
* Smokeping.pm: include links to the probe manpages from smokeping_config

3 files changed, 37 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1b12243..857053e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+* new probe programming interface -- niko
+ - more strict config file checking giving helpful error messages when necessary
+ - generate probe documentation automatically from the code
+ - eliminate PROBE_CONF sections
+ - several minor incompatible probe changes; see the smokeping_upgrade document for details 
+* allow target-specific vars get defaults from Probes section -- niko
+* timeout fixes in basefork.pm -- niko
+* config file examples and smokeping_examples document -- niko
+* documentation updates and reorganizing -- niko
+* move all smokeping-specific perl modules into the Smokeping namespace -- niko
+* new commandline options '--config=X' and '--check' -- niko
+* FPing: support "-t", "-p" and "-i" fping params -- Chris Wilson <chris *aidworld.org>
+* FPing6: test against ::1 instead of localhost -- Sebastian Wiesinger <smokeping *tracker.fire-world.de>
 * fix for basefork.pm IO::Select property has_exception is very platform dependent
   by ignoring it altogether things actually work better. Especially on Solaris which
   does have propper support for has_exception as oposed to linux. --  Niko Tyni <ntyni *iki.fi>
diff --git a/lib/Smokeping.pm b/lib/Smokeping.pm
index 9878cff..16654f1 100644
--- a/lib/Smokeping.pm
+++ b/lib/Smokeping.pm
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ sub get_parser () {
     for (readdir D) {
     	next unless s/\.pm$//;
     	next unless /^$PROBE_RE/;
-	$probelist->{$_} = "(See the separate module documentation for details about each variable.)";
+	$probelist->{$_} = "(See the L<separate module documentation|Smokeping::probes::$_> for details about each variable.)";
     }
     closedir D;
 
diff --git a/lib/Smokeping/probes/FPing.pm b/lib/Smokeping/probes/FPing.pm
index 17f649d..5f5a9cd 100644
--- a/lib/Smokeping/probes/FPing.pm
+++ b/lib/Smokeping/probes/FPing.pm
@@ -102,15 +102,15 @@ sub ping ($){
     my $errh = gensym;
     # pinging nothing is pointless
     return unless @{$self->addresses};
-    my @bytes = () ;
-    push @bytes, "-b$self->{properties}{packetsize}" if $self->{properties}{packetsize};
-    my @timeout = ();
-    push @timeout, "-t" . int(1000 * $self->{properties}{timeout}) if $self->{properties}{timeout};
+    my @params = () ;
+    push @params , "-b$self->{properties}{packetsize}" if $self->{properties}{packetsize};
+    push @params, "-t" . int(1000 * $self->{properties}{timeout}) if $self->{properties}{timeout};
+    push @params, "-i" . int(1000 * $self->{properties}{mininterval});
+    push @params, "-p" . int(1000 * $self->{properties}{hostinterval}) if $self->{properties}{hostinterval};
     my @cmd = (
-                    $self->binary, @bytes,
+                    $self->binary,
                     '-C', $self->pings, '-q','-B1','-r1',
-		    '-i' . $self->{properties}{mindelay},
-		    @timeout,
+		    @params,
                     @{$self->addresses});
     $self->do_debug("Executing @cmd");
     my $pid = open3($inh,$outh,$errh, @cmd);
@@ -168,14 +168,25 @@ Initial target timeout. In the default mode, this is  the  amount  of  time  tha
 ping waits for a response to its first request.  Successive timeouts are multiplied by the backoff factor.
 DOC
 		},
-		mindelay => {
+		hostinterval => {
 			_re => '(\d*\.)?\d+',
-			_example => 1,
-			_default => 10,
+			_example => 1.5,
+			_doc => <<DOC,
+The fping "-p" parameter, but in (possibly fractional) seconds rather than
+milliseconds, for consistency with other Smokeping probes. From fping(1):
+
+This parameter sets the time that fping  waits between successive packets
+to an individual target.
+DOC		
+		mininterval => {
+			_re => '(\d*\.)?\d+',
+			_example => .001,
+			_default => .01,
 			_doc => <<DOC,
-The fping "-i" parameter. From fping(1):
+The fping "-i" parameter, but in (probably fractional) seconds rather than
+milliseconds, for consistency with other Smokeping probes. From fping(1):
 
-The minimum amount of time (in milliseconds) between sending a ping packet to any target.
+The minimum amount of time between sending a ping packet to any target.
 DOC
 		},
 	});