BSD Ports

net/fping 5.5 MidnightBSD

Quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network

System
MidnightBSD
Repository
mports
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
PreviousBSD
Categories
net

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

SystemPortVersion
MidnightBSDnet/fping5.5
FreeBSDnet/fping5.5
OpenBSDnet/fping5.5p0
NetBSDnet/fping5.5
DragonFlynet/fping5.3

Install

Binary package:

mport install fping

From mports:

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

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	fping>0:net/fping

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: net_fping

OptionDefaultDescription
IPV6off
USES
autoreconf
Service scripts
none

Files

Manual pages 2
  • fping(8)
  • fping6(8)
pkg-plist 6
  • @mode 4555
  • sbin/fping
  • sbin/fping6
  • @mode
  • share/man/man8/fping.8.gz
  • share/man/man8/fping6.8.gz
distinfo 1
FileSizeSHA256
fping-5.5.tar.gz21552215c4e32b6c55ff105bafe03e8c91c7ca1b2eda31bf9a7127326bb87887ee18fe
Master sites 2
  • http://fping.org/dist/
  • https://github.com/schweikert/fping/releases/download/v5.5/