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fping

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Quickly ping multiple hosts without flooding the network

A tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability without flooding the network. fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered unreachable. Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its output is easy to parse.

$pkg install fping
www.fping.org
Origin
net/fping
Size
53.9KiB
License
PreviousBSD
Maintainer
jharris@widomaker.com
Dependencies
0 packages
Required by
18 packages

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