fping: A program to ping hosts in parallel1

fping is a ping(1) like program which uses the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a host is up. 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.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://www.fping.com

Author: Thomas Dzubin <dzubint [at] vcn [dot] bc [dot] ca>
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.4b2_to-ipv6

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://www.fping.com/download/ fping-2.4b2_to-ipv6.tar.gz

T2 source: fping.cache
T2 source: fping.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 1% (relative to binutils)2

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.05 MB, 7 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree autoconf automake bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep linux-header m4 make perl sed tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

1) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).