BSD Ports

net/fping 5.5p0 OpenBSD

quickly ping N hosts w/o flooding the network

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
Port added
Last update
Commit
ae16654646
Categories
net

Description

fping quickly pings multiple hosts, specified on the command-line or in a file, to determine their reachability without flooding the network. Instead of trying one host until it times out 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.

fping is meant to be used in scripts and its output is easy to parse.

N.B. The binaries installed by this package are setuid root.

In the other systems

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

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add fping

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/net/fping && make install

Dependencies

Build dependencies 1

Commit history 4

DateCommitCreditsLog message
ae16654646 kn readd accidentially removed net/fping
i meant to remove net/bing
1cc2e806b5 kn Remove abandoned, broken setuid-root net/fping
No HOMEPAGE, multiple newer versions on the internet, distfile mirrored and segfault on startup. OK kirill sthen
782fabc3fe sthen use common comment
809f7037f3 sthen add _permit_setugid symbols