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: https://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]

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