BSD Ports

net/fping 5.3 DragonFly

Quickly ping multiple hosts without flooding the network

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
PreviousBSD
Categories
net
Package size
26.5 KiB, 51.2 KiB installed

Description

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.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 5.5, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlynet/fping5.3 behind since 2026-10-20none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDnet/fping5.5 newestnone known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDnet/fping5.5p0 newestno data-Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>2026-10-20
NetBSDnet/fping5.5 newestnone known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDnet/fping5.5 newestno data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDnet/fping5.5 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDnet/fping5.5 newestno data-[email protected]-
OPNsensenet/fping5.5 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install fping

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net/fping && make install clean

Dependencies