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Fping - Pings multiple hosts at once

'fping' is a ping-like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is responding. 'fping' differs from ping in that you can specify any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending pings to one target until it times out or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin fashion.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.fping.com/
Source tarballhttp://www.fping.com/download/fping.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.fping.com/download/
Version 2.4b2 (stable) released on 2001-11-04
Licensed under an X11-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.fping.com/man/
Support contacts

Help List<dzubint@vcn.bc.ca>
Developer List<dzubint@vcn.bc.ca>
Bug List<dzubint@vcn.bc.ca>

Project contacts

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Developers
Contributors
  • Roland Schemers

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Related programsPing, Misctools, Poink, Arping

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-01-27
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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