Short: Show which network hosts are alive Author: Roland Schemers, David Schweikert & others Uploader: Carsten Larsen (carsten larsen mail com) Type: comm/tcp Version: 3.13b Architecture: i386-aros URL: http://fping.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT IS FPING ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- fping is a program like ping 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 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. In the default mode, if a target replies, it is noted and removed from the list of targets to check; if a target does not respond within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it is designated as unreachable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXAMPLE OF USAGE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generate ~1000 pings per second to a host until cancelled, printing statistics on the fly at one second intervals, and printing statistics at the end: > fping -s -l -i 1 -p 1 -T 1 -Q 1 127.0.0.1 Show if a list of hosts are alive > fping -f hosts -------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN BUGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This version of fping is a BETA version.