Fping is a ping-like program which can determine the accessibility of multiple hosts using ICMP echo requests. Fping is designed for parallelized monitoring of large numbers of systems, and is developed with ease of use in scripting in mind.
What is fping?
fping is a program to send ICMP echo probes to network hosts, similar toping, but much better performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping has a verylong history: Roland Schemers did publish a first version of it in 1992 and ithas established itself since then as a standard tool for networkdiagnostics and statistics.
Announcing version 3Fping Vs Ping
There was no official fping release from 2002 until end of 2011. Variouspatches existed, but were never integrated 'upstream'. Also, the officialmaintainer didn't answer emails, so I decided to just step up and take overmaintenanceship. If you feel that I did wrong, please contact me.
Fping Install Windows 7
To mark this change of maintenance, and avoid confusion, I decided to callit version 3. Besides a new maintainer, fping now also features a completelyrewritten main loop implementation which improves performance significantly. The run time is now close to thetheoretical time required to send and receive the pings under the specifiedparameters.
fping 3.0 includes the following changes, compared to the last releasedversion 2.4b2-to-ipv6:
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See the latest ChangeLogfile for details.
Download
Latest source: fping 5.0 (release notes)
Download release source distributions or the latest sources from GitHub.
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Binaries are available for various platforms (but not downloadable fromhere). For example: Debian, Gentoo, Archlinux all provide fping in theirlatest versions.
Support
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David Schweikert <[email protected]>
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