- There was no official fping release from 2002 until end of 2011. ... fping 3.0 includes the following changes, compared to the last released version 2.4b2-to-ipv6
- In the default mode, fping sends several requests to a target before giving up, waiting longer for a reply on each successive request.
- When using fping, first arp protocol is used and when pinging over the LAN, router’s mac address is used and in the LAN the hosts mac address is used.
- The binary named fping6 is the same as fping, except that it uses IPv6 addresses instead of IPv4.
- fping -a -g IPRANGE # -a: forces the tool to show only alive hosts. # -g: tells the tool we want to perform a ping sweep instead of a standard ping.
- fping is a tool that is less populair, but it is still very usefull for pinging multiple hosts all at once. fping is a tool that can also be used to ping a single host...
- Note that when fping sends ICMP requests to multiple hosts, it does that in parallel without waiting for one host to respond and then move to the next one.
- fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin fashion.
- If you can't run fping as root or can't use the cap_net_raw capability, you can also run fping in unprivileged mode.
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- Last commit:21 April 2024
- Fping is a software utility that is designed to test the reachability of a host on an IP network, and to measure the round-trip time for packets sent from the...